Commonly used instruments to collect cytological smear includes wooden blade, metal spatula but oral brush is proved to be more efficient as cytological smear collected by latter is more thick and effective.
Cytological viewing of keratinisation of oral cells..
Respiratory/exfoliative cytology, which includes bronchial washing, sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage, and bronchial brushing cytology.
Those are commonly used to detect pulmonary infections and malignancies.
Urinary cytology: Urine cytology, bladder washing, and brushing cytology..
Exfoliative cytology means scraping the surface of a possible skin cancer with a knife and then spreading a small layer of the scrape onto a glass slide so that the cells in the scrape can be stained and looked at under a microscope..
An example of spontaneous exfoliation is when cells of the pleural cavity or peritoneal cavity are shed into the pleural or peritoneal fluid.
This fluid can be collected via various methods for examination.
BASIS FOR EXFOLIATIVE CYTOLOGY 9 Natural spontaneous exfoliation:
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DEFINITION Exfoliative cytology (EC) is the microscopic examination of shed, desquamated cells from body surfaces or cells harvested by rubbing or brushing a lesional tissue surface. It also includes ,cells harvested from mucus membranes and body fluids.
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