Remotely operated robotic microscopy for rapid diagnosis of bronchoscopic cytology specimens.

Use of a remote-controlled robotic microscope improved the ease of adequacy assessment compared to non-robotic telecytology and enabled strongly concordant diagnoses to be expediently rendered. This study provides evidence that modern robotic telecytology is a feasible and user-friendly method of remotely and potentially intraoperatively rendering adequacy assessments and diagnoses on bronchoscopic cytology specimens.