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The Cytology for Leukemic Cells in Cerebrospinal Fluid; Comparison of Conventional Cytology with Liquid-Based Cytology.
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Original Article The Cytology for Leukemic Cells in Cerebrospinal Fluid; Comparison of Conventional Cytology with Liquid-Based Cytology.
Changyoung Yoo, Youn Soo Lee, Chang Suk Kang, Sang In Shim, Kyo Young Lee
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine 2009;43(2):164-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2009.43.2.164
Department of Hospital Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. lys9908@catholic.ac.kr
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BACKGROUND
The cytological examination of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) using conventional cytology with a cytocentrifuge (cytospin) is an important method for evaluating the involvement of leukemia in the CNS. Liquid-based cytology (LBC) is now a widely used cytological method not only for gynecological and non-gynecological specimens, but its application to CSF for the identification of leukemic cell has not yet been reported. In this study, we tried to compare conventional cytology with using a cytospin with LBC and Papanicolaou (Pap) staining. We also examined the modified LBC with Wright staining to assess whether this modified method can be useful for diagnosing Leukemia.
METHODS
We studied 30 cases of CSF that were obtained from 16 patients, including 17 cases of acute myeloid leukemia, 12 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and 1 case of diffuse large B cell lymphoma. We applied conventional cytology with a cytocentrifuge (cytospin), LBC with Pap staining and modified LBC with Wright staining.
RESULTS
The morphological features of the LBC with Pap staining showed difficulty for interpretation when compared with conventional cytology with a cytospin, and mainly because of cellular shrinkage. The modified LBC with Wright staining showed good morphological features.
CONCLUSIONS
We suggest that modified LBC with Wright staining may be useful for examining CSF.

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