BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Thyroid nodules are very common in our setup and their diagnosis on fine needle aspiration is not easy and is a taxing affair. It is a challenge to differentiate between follicular adenoma and follicular carcinoma without histology. Our objective was to investigate the role of Galectin-3 in fine needle aspirates of thyroid nodules as a prospective diagnostic marker and co...

Thyroid disorders are the most common endocrine disorder seen in clinical practice and solitary thyroid nodule is one of presentations disease. This study aimed at profiling cases with respect to incidence nodule, age, gender, benign malignant proportions set a clinically applicable approach evaluation management. prospective followed 30 over 2 years. It showed that almost 20 percent all nodule...

BACKGROUND Cancer is an occasional incidental finding in nodular goiter, but there has been no formal study on this disease in our locality. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine the occurrence of histologically diagnosed malignancy in patients who present with nodular goiters. METHODOLOGY This is a 7-year (2000-2006) retrospective study of all histologically diagnosed malignancies within nodula...

The technique of ultrasound-guided transvaginal follicular aspiration for ovum pick-up (OPU), is a non-invasive procedure for recovering oocytes from antral follicles in live animals. It was developed in the human [1,2] to assist human infertility. When people realized its application prospect, considerable researches have been aimed at applying this technology in the bovine. In 1987, an ultras...

Ovarian follicular growth and development are regulated by extraovarian and intraovarian factors, which influence granulosa cell proliferation and differentiation. However, the molecular mechanisms that drive follicular growth are not completely understood. Ovarian follicular cysts are one of the most common causes of reproductive failure in dairy cattle. Nevertheless, the primary cause of cyst...

BACKGROUND Hürthle cell carcinoma is a variant of follicular cell carcinoma of thyroid. It may present as a low-grade tumour or as a more aggressive type. Prognosis depends upon the age of the patient, tumour size, extent of invasion and initial nodal or distant metastasis. PATIENT AND METHODS The case of Hürthle cell carcinoma is reported in a 79-year-old man who presented with a rapidly inc...

Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is an important test for triaging patients with thyroid nodules. The 2007 National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration State-of-the-Science Conference helped instigate the recent publication of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology. We reviewed 3,080 thyroid FNA samples and recorded interpretations according to the proposed standardized...

INTRODUCTION The recently-proposed Bethesda reporting system has offered clinical recommendations for each category of reported thyroid cytology, including repeated fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for non-diagnostic and atypia/follicular lesions of undetermined significance, but there are no sound indications for repeated examination after an initial benign exam. OBJECTIVE To investigate the cli...