background : breast carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor and leading cause of cancer deaths in women. while fine needle aspiration cytology is highly accurate in the diagnosis of breast lesions, it possesses certain drawbacks. in those circumstances intraoperative imprint cytology assumes importance, however, imprint cytology is subjected to interpretative errors. computer image analysi...

Background & Objective: Abdominal cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules are uncommon lesions which may be benign or malignant. Majority of the malignant nodules are metastatic in origin and may be the initial presentation of primary malignancy, hence an early diagnosis is important. Our aim was to find out the spectrum of lesions (both non-neoplastic and neoplastic) that present as cutaneous and s...

metastatic survey of the patients with known primary malignancies with bone scan is one of the most common studies in nuclear medicine. unfortunately the conventional planar bone scan has a very low specificity for differentiating benign from malignant lesions especially in the spinal column. in this study, we compared the specificity of spect imaging and conventional planar bone scan. we studi...

Background and objective: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of salivary gland lesions is an accepted and useful diagnostic tool to differentiate between benign and malignant lesions. Majority of the neoplasms are benign, and specific diagnosis on cytology can be made in most of the cases. However, the utility is limited by the overlapping and heterogeneous morphol...

background & objective: abdominal cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules are uncommon lesions which may be benign or malignant. majority of the malignant nodules are metastatic in origin and may be the initial presentation of primary malignancy, hence an early diagnosis is important. our aim was to find out the spectrum of lesions (both non-neoplastic and neoplastic) that present as cutaneous a...

Adrenal lesions are commonly observed during 18F-FDG PET/CT studies. Although, most of these lesions are considered benign, an important consideration in oncologic patients is metastasis. Benign lesions, such as adenomas usually present with low 18F-FDG uptake, although overlap with malignant lesions exist and clear SUV cut-off for distinguishing adrenal adenomas has not b...

the goal is assessing the diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dmri) method effi ciency in characterizing focal hepatic lesions (fhls). about 28-fhl patients were studied in radiology and clinical imaging department of our university hospital using 1.5 tesla mri system between january 2010 and june 2011. patients underwent hepatic mri consisting of dynamic t1- and t2-weighted imaging. the dmri...