CYTOHISTOLOGICAL CORRELATIVE STUDY OF BREAST LESIONS

Hits and misses in diagnosis of thyroid lesions – Cytohistological correlation

Background: Fine needle aspiration of thyroid neoplasm is cost effective procedure to differentiate between benign and malignant lesions in most of the cases. Aim: To evaluate the accuracy of FNAC in diagnosis of different thyroid lesions, particularly differentiation of malignant and non malignant lesions. Materials and methods: Study comprised of 220 cases of thyroid FNAC’s which were followe...

Screening of Breast Lesions: a comparative study

the study of aaag repeat polymorphism in promoter of errg gene and its association with the risk of breast cancer in isfahan region

چکیده: سرطان پستان دومین عامل مرگ مرتبط با سرطان در خانم ها است. از آنجا که سرطان پستان یک تومور وابسته به هورمون است، می تواند توسط وضعیت هورمون های استروئیدی شامل استروژن و پروژسترون تنظیم شود. استروژن نقش مهمی در توسعه و پیشرفت سرطان پستان ایفا می کند و تاثیر خود را روی بیان ژن های هدف از طریق گیرنده های استروژن اعمال می کند. اما گروه دیگری از گیرنده های هسته ای به نام گیرنده های مرتبط به ا...

Fine needle aspiration cytology of signet ring cells in breast carcinoma: a cytohistological study of 11 cases

Signet ring cell (SRC) carcinoma is a unique subtype of adenocarcinoma; however, the clinicopathological profiles of SRCs in breast carcinoma are yet to be determined. Here, we investigated cyto-histological findings of 11 breast carcinoma cases with SRCs comprising more than 20% of the tumor cells; invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) (n=4), invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) (n=4), pleomorphic lobul...

Alzheimer's disease: a correlative study.

In a study of 17 patients with histologically proven Alzheimer's disease the relationship between psychological, pathological and chemical measures of disorder was examined. Severity of dementia, determined by mental test performance, correlated highly with pathological change in large cortical neurons (cell loss and reduction in nuclear and nucleolar volume and cytoplasmic RNA content), to a l...