Table 1.
Demographics of patients with malignant pleural disease (N = 35)
Table 2.
Diagnostic yield of flex-rigid pleuroscopy according to histology (N = 35)
Table 3.
Comparison of diagnostic yield between cell block and pleural biopsy in patients with negative results on cell block (N = 10)
Fig 1.
Cytology, cell block and biopsy specimen findings in a patient with negative result on cell block.
In 63 years old male, conventional cytology shows few malignant cells with features of adenocarcinoma (Papanicolaou stain) (A). Cell block shows only red blood cells and inflammatory cells with no malignant cells (Hematoxylin and Eosin stain) (B). Biopsy specimen shows adenocarcinoma with solid growth pattern (Hematoxylin and Eosin stain) (C). Scale bar = 200 μm.