Role of squash cytology in intraoperative diagnosis of spinal lesions

Conclusion: Inspite of having pitfalls and various limitations in case of spinal lesions, squash preparation is a rapid and easy method with fairly high diagnostic accuracy. So it can be reliably used as an intraoperative diagnostic tool in spinal lesions.

http://www.jcytol.org/text.asp?2018/35/3/139/233020

Source: Journal of Cytology - July 12, 2018 Category: Cytology Authors: Mousumi Kar Moumita Sengupta Saurav Sarkar Saikat Bera Chhanda Datta Uttara Chatterjee Samarendra Nath Ghosh Source Type: research