Table 1.
Specimen source and cytological diagnosis of smears and cell pellets evaluated by digital confocal microscopy.
| Specimen source | Cytological diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| Smears | Benign | Malignant |
| Breast (n = 27) | Ductal carcinoma (26) | |
| Spindle and epithelioid tumor (1) | ||
| Lung (n = 23) | Squamous carcinoma (2) | |
| Adenocarcinoma (8) | ||
| PDNSCLC (3) | ||
| Neuroendocrine tumor (2) | ||
| SCMT (8) | ||
| Kidney (n = 14) | Oncocytoma (1) | Renal cell carcinoma (13) |
| Liver (n = 27) | Benign hepatocytes (7) | Adenocarcinoma (17) |
| Necrosis with rare *PDC (3) | ||
| Cell pellets | ||
| Breast (n = 26) | Benign ductal cells (2) | Ductal carcinoma (24) |
| Lung (n = 11) | Squamous carcinoma (1) | |
| Adenocarcinoma (2) | ||
| PDNSCLC (4) | ||
| SCMT (4) | ||
| Kidney (n = 4) | Renal cell carcinoma (4) | |
| Liver (n = 11) | Benign hepatocytes (5) | Adenocarcinoma (4) |
| Necrosis rare PDC (2) | ||
PDNSCLC poorly differentiated non–small cell lung carcinoma, SCMT spindle cell malignant tumor, PDC poorly differentiated carcinoma.