background and objectives: thyroid gland because of its superficial location is amenable to direct physical examination. clinical assessment of thyroid lesions by means of physical examination, thyroid scans and ultrasonography is not completely reliable. fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) is the most cost-effective, safe and an initial diagnostic test in the pre-operative evaluation of thy...

Background/Objective: The aim of this study was to perform a comparative evaluation of the yields of conventional brush cytology and brush cytology with negative pressure in the diagnosis of malignant biliary strictures. Methods: A total of 132 consecutive patients undergoing endoscopic were identified. Of these, 88.0 had brush cytology after ERCP and 44 were Brush cytology with negative pressu...

superficial acral fibromyxoma are rare soft tissue tumors predominantly involving hands and feet of adults. there are only a few reported cases of this benign neoplasm, but no fnac diagnosis of this tumor is reported in the literature. a forty-eight year old female presented with a 5 x 3.5 cm globular, firm swelling over the right fifth toe. fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) of the lesion ...

background & objective: chronic non healing ulcers or scar undergoing malignant transformation is a rare phenomenon with an estimated incidence of 2%. though, numerous predisposing factors have been identified, still it is rarely diagnosed and commonly mistaken for a benign condition. the objective of this study was to verify the efficacy of the fine needle aspiration cytology/ scrape cytol...

Candidal peritonitis associated with perforation –An interesting case of ascitic fluid cytology - ACHR- Print ISSN No: 2581-5725 Online No:- 2456-9267 Article DOI 10.18231/j.achr.2023.034, IP Archives Cytology and Histopathology Research-IP Arch Cytol Histopathol Res

BACKGROUND Liquid-based cytology is reported to increase the sensitivity of cervical cytology and the proportion of slides that are satisfactory for assessment, in comparison with conventional cytology. Although some countries have changed to liquid-based cytology for cervical screening, controversy remains. We reviewed the published work to assess the performance of liquid-based cytology relat...

Introduction and purposeThis article aims to compare two guiding methods of cervical cancer screening: cytology HPV testing. The objective is provide information on which method currently more relevant in the early detection precancerous lesions. 
 Material methodThis review was mainly based articles collected Pubmed i years 2015-2022. research done by looking through keywords as follows: ...