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The multidisciplinary team dealing with patients with thyroid nodules must include a pathologist. The aim is to make the correct diagnosis as soon as possible after presentation, to prevent surgery where it is not required, and to allow treatment to be planned when malignancy is diagnosed. The first investigation should now be fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology. With adequate specimens, the ...

Background: Fine-needle aspiration of breast cancer often provides moderate cellular material that is representative of the tumors. These samples can be used not only for cytological diagnosis but also to obtain information on the prognosis and likely response to therapy by using immunohistochemical staining studies. Methods: We assessed the degree of correlation between prognostic biologic ma...

Research Article 1 2 3 4 5 Amrita Raj ,Amit Pandey , Ankita Raj , Gauri Mishra , Abhinav Misra , Saket Nigam 1. Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Centre, Kanpur. 2. Reader, Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Centre, Kanpur. 3. Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surg...

In a pilot study, 21 patients underwent transbronchial fine needle aspiration (TBFNA) using a 45 cm-22 gauge needle guided by means of a semi-rigid metal sleeve, which was introduced through a standard rigid bronchoscope. A total of 33 aspirations were performed from main carina (15), paratracheal (five), and lobar carinal (13) foci. Six aspirations yielded malignant cellular samples, 22 aspira...

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 The negative predictive value of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions remains low, and the biopsy specimens are sometimes inadequate for appropriate pathological diagnosis. AIMS To evaluate the usefulness of a novel method of contrast-enhanced harmonic endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration for the ...

This retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of 244 sonographically guided fine- needle aspiration biopsy in 226 patients with ultrasonographically suspected hepatic malignant lesions. A final diagnosis of malignancy was established in 166 cases (73%) (145 hepatocellular carcinoma, 21 metastasis); benign lesions were aspirated in 60 cases (27%). The diagnostic s...

BACKGROUND Opportunistic infections and malignancies cause lymphadenopathy in HIV-infected patients. The use and accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology in diagnosing of cervical lymphadenopathy among HIV-infected patients is not well studied in Uganda. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology in providing a diagnosis of c...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of abdominal and retroperitoneal masses in children on this study. In 53 cases of childhood abdominal and retroperitoneal masses within a 4 year period (19982001) preoperative fine needle aspiration was done under the guide of CT scan. 2 pathologists reviewed fine needle aspiration smears. In all ...