BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) with it's minimally invasiveness has been a well accepted procedure in the initial diagnosis of various swellings. With time and experience high sensitivity and specificity of FNAC over conventional open biopsy has lead to the wide acceptance of this procedure. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utility of aspiration cytology as a first-line diagnostic...

Objectives: To assess the diagnostic yield of FNAC in patients presenting with cold thyroid nodules and to identify features that might be useful for making practical decisions about their management. Study Design: Retrospective, descriptive. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Ear, Nose, Throat, Head & Neck Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences and Civil Hospital Karachi during 200...

Primary thyroid lymphomas (PTL) are extremely uncommon neoplasms accounting for 5% of all thyroid malignancies. There are very few small series and occasional case reports of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of PTL in literature. We present an interesting and rare case of PTL diagnosed on FNAC. FNAC is an important tool in the diagnosis of thyroid lymphoma. Journal of Cytology 2007; 24 (3...

Introduction: The prevalence of clinically palpable thyroid nodules is approximately 4–7%, but the prevalence of ultrasound-detectable nodules is 19 to 67%. FNAC is widely accepted and has become cornerstone in evaluation of thyroid nodules, because it is a simple and accurate screening test with high sensitivity and specificity in the preoperative evaluation of thyroid lesions. Ultrasound guid...

Objective: Measurement of thyroglobulin (Tg) in the wash-out of the needle used to perform FNAB on cervical lymph nodes (FNAB-Tg) provides evidence for metastatic of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). However, the cutoff value from preoperative patients is still controversial. The objectives of the study were to (1) determine an optimized cutoff value for FNAB-Tg levels (2) compare fine ne...

FNAC of breast lump is an accepted and established method to determine the nature of the lump and it may play an important role when it is difficult to determine the nature of breast lump by clinical examination. It has been shown that, FNAC can reduce the number of open breast biopsies. FNAC has been found to have sensitivity ranging from 82% to 97.5% and specificity of more than 99% (7,8 and 9).

Soft-tissue sarcomas (STSs) are rare neoplasms that can be initially evaluated by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Although they difficult to subtype, these graded and classified based on cytomorphology. FNAC, with clinical radiological correlation, effectively used in the diagnosis of STSs. Application ancillary techniques is essential arrive at final diagnosis. The aim study was determ...

Background. Management of breast lumps can be challenging in resource poor settings. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) especially when used with cell block can help improve affordability for the patients. Objective. To determine the diagnostic accuracy of FNAC of palpable breast lesions within a 5-year period. Methods. The findings obtained from FNAC of palpable breast lumps seen at the FN...

OBJECTIVE To determine the histopathologic correlation of fine needle aspiration cytology FNAC of breast masses seen in the department of histopathology of the Federal Medical Center Owo, Southwestern Nigeria. DESIGN This is a 5-year retrospective study of breast lumps seen at Department of Histopathology, Federal Medical Centre Owo, a tertiary health care facility in Southwestern Nigeria bet...

Background: Evaluate the diagnostic superiority of FNAC with FNNAC in lesions of thyroid gland. Study design: Cross Sectional Study. Setting: Pathology Department, KEMU, Lahore. Duration of study: 15-2-2015 to 14-08-2015. Methods: FNAC/FNNAC was performed on 260 patients (taking expected percentage of diagnostic superiority of FNAC as 60%) and the diagnostic superiority was assessed using “Modi...