Abstract:
This descriptive study was carried out in
Khartoum North, Rebat university and Omdurman
Military hospitals, during the period from February
2011 to March 2012 . The study was aimed to
study the cytomorpholigical pattern of peritoneal
fluid using cytological technique.
.Seventy cytological smears were collected
from patients with Ascetic
their ages ranged
between 10 to 85 years with mean age (45)
years .Smears were prepared ,fixed
and stained
using Papanicolaou stain and Diff,s Quick stain
then examined under the light microscope .
The cellularity of smears were 35(50%)smears
were cellular and 35(50%)smears were a cellular .
Out
of
35
cellular
smears,
cell
pattern
distributed as follow mesothelial cells 5 (14.2 % ),
malignant cells were found in 4(11.4) smears,
among which 2(5.7%) smears were females and
4
2(5.7%)smears were male. However most of the
cellular
smears
showed
dense
inflammatory
infiltrate, which were detected in 30(42.8%) of the
study subjects.
The
infiltrate
majority
were
of
the
inflammatory
lymphocytes
(57.1%), followed by
cells
constituting
20
neutrophils , finally plasma
cells 2 (5.7%) .
The study conclude that cytological changes
were detected in ascetic fluid by cytological stains.
Papanicolaou method is clearly superior and the
most important for demonstration of the nuclear
details, and particularly the presence of nuclear
grooves,
but
achieving
more
accurate
result
requires use of both papanicolauou and diffs quick
stains.
