Utility of touch imprint cytology in the preoperative diagnosis of malignancy in low resource setting.

TIC is a simple and rapid technique and gives fairly accurate diagnosis while the cost is much less than the traditional histopathological techniques. The presence or absence of malignancy and the exact subtype can be diagnosed reliably making it quiet useful for preoperative cancer diagnosis. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2017;45:507-512. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.