DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i05.006

Pages: 1702-1705

Background: Gynaecological malignancies are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in women. Early detection and prompt management is the key to improve survival rate among affected so we planned to do study of cytopathological examination of peritoneal washings and ascitic fluid in gynecological malignancies as it is a simple & inexpensive method and correlate the findings with histopathological diagnosis and clinical information to arrive at staging and local spread of disease. Aim & objectives: To study cytopathology of peritoneal washings and ascitic fluid in gynaecological malignancies with histopathological correlation along with clinical details in gynaecological malignancies and to correlate cytopathological findings with staging of gynaecological malignancies. Material and methods: This study was carried out in Department of Pathology of a tertiary care hospital. This was a cross sectional study of cytopathological examination of peritoneal washings and ascitic fluid in gynaecological malignancies with histopathological correlation. Period of study was 2 years from June 2016 to May 2018, which includes 40 cases. Results: In present study total 40 samples from cases of Gynaecologic malignancies were received from our hospital which includes 14 samples of ascitic fluid (35%) and 26 samples of peritoneal wash (65%) for cytopathological studies. Out of 40 gynaecological malignancies, ovarian malignancies predominates (87.5%) Conclusion: Cytopathological examination of ascitic fluid and peritoneal washing greatly aids in supporting the diagnosis, in predicting the prognosis and chance of recurrence of the tumor that in turn helps in proper management and treatment of the patients.