Overview & Materials
Collection Techniques
Slide Preparation & Artifacts
Evaluation of Solid Masses & Fluid Analysis
Criteria for Malignancy
100
Information that histopathology provides that cytology doesn't.
What is tissue architecture?
100
The two FNA techniques used to collect cells from solid masses.
What are the woodpecker and vacuum techniques?
100
The technique that is similar to the push smear, which is often used for thin and/or clear fluids that may not contain many cells.
What is the stop smear?
100
When examining a cytology slide at high power, the two basic cell types you look for BEFORE you try to identify specific cells.
What are inflammatory and tissue cells?
100
The term that refers to varying cell size and shape.
What is pleomorphism?
200
The sample tubes that should always be filled when a fluid analysis is done.
What are an LTT and a no-additive tube?
200
The piece of equipment that is required for safe fluid collection during a thoracocentesis or a pericardiocentesis.
What is a 3-way stopcock?
200
The purpose of using a hair dryer, which can also be achieved by waving the cytology slide manually in the air.
What is rapid drying of cells on the slide?
200
The three criteria you should always scan a stained cytology slide for, BEFORE the patient leaves the hospital.
What are: Adequate cellularity, intact cells, and slide quality?
200
The term used for a dividing cell seen on cytology.
What is a mitotic figure?
300
The piece of equipment that is required for safe fluid collection during a thoracocentesis or a pericardiocentesis.
What is a 3-way stopcock?
300
In the wash/lavage technique, the fluid used to collect cells and material from a body cavity or space.
What is sterile saline?
300
The slide preparation technique that often results in two usable cytology slides.
What is the squash technique?
300
The four types of inflammatory cells that may be present on a cytology slide.
What are neutrophils, eosinophils, macrophages, and lymphocytic/plasmacytic cells?
400
The circumstance when an aseptic (sterile) patient prep is required.
What is collecting a sample from a body cavity or space?
400
The limitation of impression smears for diagnosis of skin lesions.
What is "can only provide information about the surface of the lesion"?
400
The two most common reasons for understained slides.
What are insufficient exposure time and exhausted stain?
400
The significance of blood that doesn't clot when collected from a body cavity or space.
What is old hemorrhage?
400
Four nuclear criteria for malignancy.
What are: Karyomegaly, increased N:C ratio, anisokaryosis, multiple nuclei, increased nucleoli, multiple nucleoli, varying nucleolar size/shape, mitotic figures
500
The three possible diagnostic outcomes of a cytology procedure.
What are: Definitive diagnosis; yield useful or actionable information; yield no diagnostic or actionable information.
500
The name of the specialized tool used to scrape tissues such as conjunctiva, cornea, and skin.
What is a Kimura spatula?
500
Exposure to just the fumes of this agent will cause discoloration of the cytology slide, with RBCs turning green and other cells blue.
What is formalin?
500
The four main components of a fluid analysis.
What are gross characteristics, protein measurement, total nucleated cell count, and cytology?
500
Changes that may occur in some cell types that can mimic malignant criteria.
What are reactive changes?
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