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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1949 Lemon and Byrne reported a large series of patients undergoing duodenal aspiration cytology with a test sensitivity of over 70%.
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Methods are obviously required to improve the sensitivity of diagnostic biliary cytology .
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Multiple sampling for exfoliative cytology has been shown to improve the sensitivity of the technique but is time consuming.
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None of the 15 patients subsequently shown to have benign disease had positive cytology .
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One third of the patients with cholangiocarcinoma and a quarter of those with cancer of the pancreas had positive cytology .
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Percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology is, however, highly operator dependent.
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The possible dissemination of tumour by percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology may result in these becoming the diagnostic techniques of choice.