Tactile imaging is a newly developed mechanical sensing technology for documenting the properties of hard lumps contained in soft tissue. An examiner strokes a scan head across tissue that contains a mass and images of the distributed contact pressure between the head and the tissue are recorded. We have developed models that predict these pressure distributions from geometric and material prop...

Background: Spontaneous infarction is an uncommon complication of fibroadenoma of the breast. Although infarction following fine needle aspiration (FNA) has been reported in the literature, infarction encountering on first time aspiration is very rare. Lack of knowledge of this entity may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of inflammatory lesion like mastitis and carcinoma on cytology smears. Case...

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today (After lung cancer) and is the most common cancer among women, excluding non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancers. Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 22.9% of invasive cancers in women and 16% of all female cancers.1 Mammography has been the basic imaging method in breast diagnostics, and the only tool suitable for screenin...

The aim of this study was to assess the role of Triple Test in preoperative diagnosis of palpable breast lesions and to evaluate performance characteristics of its components individually and combined, keeping histopathological examination as reference standard. A total of 120 cases of palpable breast lesions were studied over a period of five years from 2009 to 2014. These patients were subjec...

BACKGROUND Hurthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid is a rare form of thyroid cancer. It may present as a low grade tumour or can present as a more aggressive metastatic carcinoma. Hurthle cell carcinoma has the highest incidence of metastasis among all differentiated thyroid cancers. Most commonly haematogenous spread to lungs, bones and brain, however spread to regional lymph nodes is not uncomm...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women worldwide. In Iraq, there is a tendency for this disease to be diagnosed in younger ages, at advanced stages with a prevalence of more aggressive tumor behavior. Patients and Methods: The study included a total of 216 women with breast lumps and proven breast cancer who visited the Main Referral Training Center for Early Dete...

The detection of a breast lump causes understandable fear of breast cancer in both the patient and the clinician. Patients usually first present to their general practitioner with the finding. Although majority of palpable breast lumps are benign, a thorough history, examination and timely onward specialist referral to the breast team for further investigations is essential to confirm the diagn...

Breast cancer is a cancer of the breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females-affecting, at some time in their lives, approximately one out of nine Benign lesions of breast are the most common lesions which accounts for 90% of the clinical presentation related to breast. The main aim of this study is to profile the pattern of benign breast lumps amongst young female...

Although various devices have been designed to enable the syringe to be held single handed2l 3 4 we have found the "braced thumb method" as described by Webbl56 to be satisfactory. The lump to be aspirated is steadied between the thumb and forefinger of the left hand while a 20 ml syringe with a No. 18 guage (green) needle is held in the right hand. The needle is introduced into the lesion whil...