Cytologic evaluation can predict microbial culture results for infectious causes of pulmonary nodules in patients undergoing fine needle aspiration biopsy

Steve A Miller; Annemieke van Zante; Brian S Schwartz

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.08.005

Cytologic evaluation can predict microbial culture results for infectious causes of pulmonary nodules in patients undergoing fine needle aspiration biopsy

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2010 Nov;68(3):330-3. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.08.005.

Authors

Steve A Miller¹, Annemieke van Zante, Brian S Schwartz

Affiliation

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 20955918
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.08.005

Abstract

We retrospectively compared cytopathology and microbial culture results for pulmonary fine needle aspiration biopsy specimens over a 10-year period. Eighty samples were submitted for culture, yielding 24 positive cultures with 17 pathogenic organisms. Cytology predicted positive cultures in all cases where organisms were visualized, and it was associated with negative cultures in 24 of 25 cases where inflammatory changes and necrosis were absent.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bacteriological Techniques
Biopsy, Fine-Needle
Child
Cytological Techniques
Female
Humans
Lung / microbiology*
Lung / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Pneumonia, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology*
Pneumonia, Bacterial / pathology
Retrospective Studies
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / microbiology*
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / pathology*
Statistics as Topic