Cytopathologic factors can predict invasion in small-sized peripheral lung adenocarcinoma with a bronchioloalveolar carcinoma component

Abstract

Using imprint smears, the presence of invasion in small-sized primary adenocarcinomas of the lung is predictable by the 2 above-mentioned cytologic findings. Imprint smear cytology may effectively aid intraoperative judgement of invasion in cases where frozen section histology is difficult to interpret.