Website : www.jphmr.com Quick Response Code : birth 4 months back. Her medical and gynecological history was otherwise uneventful. A large, well defined, solid, mobile mass measuring 20X20cm was noted on abdomen and pelvic examination. Borders of the mass were well made out except the lower border. Mass was bimanually ballotable. Sonographic evaluation demonstrated a well defined left adnexal m...

One of the criteria of selection for skin sparing mastectomy (SSM) with nipple areola complex (NAC) preservation is to exclude the neoplastic involvement of subareolar tissue (NAC base) in order to minimize the possibility of local recurrence. The most common way to assess the possible neoplastic involvement is intraoperative frozen section of the NAC base tissue. Because of its limitations, pa...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to assess whether cytology can help in rapid diagnosis of ovarian neoplasms and thus facilitate individualised treatment. METHODS A prospective investigation was performed on 30 cases of suspected ovarian neoplasms. Imprint smears were made intraperatively from fresh samples from various representative areas, and stained with Leishman Giemsa for air-...

Diagnostic cytology is a relatively new science. Cytology (Greek word: kytos = hollow vessel) is the study of individual cells and their intrinsic characteristics and functions. George Papanicolaou is considered the father of exfoliative cytology, but cytology was first used in cutaneous disorders by Tzanck in 1947, for the diagnosis of vesiculo-bullous disorders, particularly herpes simplex. S...

The introduction of programmes to detect bladder cancer in people exposed to carcinogens and the increased interest in the value of urinary cytology as a diagnostic procedure have resulted in the need for a satisfactory method of preparing specimens. Ideally, the method must be simple to perform and reproducible, and result in a high degree of cellular clarity and minimal cellular distortion. V...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this work was to investigate whether clinical cytology could be useful in the preoperative diagnosis of pelvic actinomycosis. METHODS This study involved the prospective collection of samples derived from the endometrium and the uterine cervix, and retrospective data analysis. Nine patients with clinically diagnosed pelvic actinomycosis were enrolled. The clinical an...