Fine needle aspiration biopsy of lymph nodes using a 19 gauge needle and Luer Lok syringe was performed in 59 cases. This was compared with histological diagnosis and an accuracy of 93.2% was achieved. This method is simple and is highly acceptable among patients. It is a very useful technique where a biopsy of lymph node is not possible (JPMA 30:267, 1980).

BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) is a routine diagnostic technique for evaluating thyroid nodules. Many reports in adults consider that FNA is superior to thyroid ultrasonography (USG) and radionuclide scanning (RS). Only five studies have been published on FNA of childhood thyroid nodules. AIMS To investigate the reliability of FNA in the evaluation and management of thyroid no...

Augmented reality is applied to ultrasound-guided needle biopsy of the human breast. In a tracked stereoscopic head-mounted display, a physician sees the ultrasound imagery “emanating” from the transducer, properly registered with the patient and the biopsy needle. A physician has successfully used the system to guide a needle into a synthetic tumor within a breast phantom and examine a human p...

Subcutaneous tumor seeding after fine-needle percutaneous biopsy for hepatocellular carcinoma is a rarely seen complication. The authors describe a case of subcutaneous neoplastic seeding in a 70-year-old woman with chronic hepatitis C virus complicated by hepatocellular carcinoma. Ultrasonically guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy was performed in segment II of the liver. The neoplastic seedi...

Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) was performed in 46 patients with an orbital mass. Positive cytological identification was made in 43 biopsy specimens. In 26 cases with histopathological control the accuracy was 81%. In experienced hands FNAB is safe and appears to be a valuable tool in establishing a diagnosis of malignancy in orbital tumours.

Prostatic massage specimens are not consistent in producing adequate material. Also, the possibility of contamination from other parts of the urinary tract cannot be discounted. It is of no value in latent or occult carcinoma (6, 13, 22), though some authors have been highly successful in the diagnosis of prostatic carcinoma by this method (16). Popular concensus of opinion agrees that 85-950/o...

CASE REPORT. A 78-year-old woman presented with a five week history of a lump in her left breast and a four week history of a blocked right nostril. On examination, she had a hard, immobile mass in the breast and there was also obvious enlargement of her right nasal area, extending towards the eye and maxillary sinus. It was assumed that she had a carcinoma of her breast with a secondary metast...

UNLABELLED Thyroid nodules are a common pathology of the thyroid gland. Thyroid fine-needle biopsy (FNB) is a technique used as the first step in the assessment of thyroid nodules. Some au- thors have demonstrated the superiority of nonaspiration compared with aspiration biopsy. AIM The objective was to assess whether there are significant differences between the two thyroid biopsy techniques...

Communications to the Editor are basically in agreement with his statements, we feel a few comments are in order. The extremely high rate of specific benign diagnoses reported by Khouri et al’ from needle biopsies of lung nodules is not the experience of most practitioners, and is probably due to their unique expertise, as well as the fact that in most instances they used an 18 or 20 ga needle ...