Brush citology in diagnosing biliary and pancreatic illnesses

Introduction: We examined specificity, sensitivity of brush cytology among malignancy suspect biliary and pancreatic jaundiced patients. Our patient group was heterogeneous, 20 of them were females, 12 of them were males, their age was between 40 and 86. Patients: We performed 37 brush cytologies at ERCP in malignancy suspect biliary strictures at 32 patients because of repeating, from March 2013 to February 2014. Results: We evaluated 37 cytological findings between C1 – 5. C1 was untreatable, in 1 case, C2 was benign, in 19 cases, C3 – 5 was malignant, in 17 cases. Histologically, out of our 32 patients, the f…