Victoria Psomiadou, Sofia Lekka, Theodoros Panoskaltsis, Helen Tsouma, Natasa Novkovic, Helen J Trihia, Olympia Tzaida, Dimitrios Korfias, Panagiotis Giannakas, Christos Iavazzo, Christos Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Vlahos, George Vorgias
INTRODUCTION: During the past decade, the theory that high-grade extrauterine pelvic tumors originate from the fallopian tube has been strongly suggested. Our study aims to illuminate the possible role of tubal cytology as an accessory identification tool for gynecologic extrauterine malignancies, allowing in the long term the implementation of population-level cytologic tube evaluation during all benign gynecologic surgeries that do not result in salpingectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We ex vivo collect salpingeal epithelial cells from the fibria directly from fresh fallopian tube specimens from women undergoing salpingectomy for any indication...
May 23, 2023: Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology