This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic utility of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in evaluation neoplastic cutaneous nodular skin lesions and provide insights from a tertiary care institute. A total 150 patients with were included study, FNAC was performed using 23-gauge needle attached 10-ml syringe. The found that is valuable tool for lesions. It had sensitivity 88% specificity 10...

Objectives: To assess the diagnostic effi cacy of fi ne needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in identifying cancer isolated thyroid nodules using nodule histology as gold standard. Materials and Methods: Between January 2021 September 2022, 145 individuals who were hospitalized to ENT department, Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan, with a single underwent surgery for histopathology whose ...

Introduction: Thyroid nodules are commonly encountered on ultrasonographic studies. Color doppler ultrasonography can be utilized to help in differentiating malignant and nonmalignant nodules based on different imaging criteria. Objective: The objective of this study is to correlate sonographic and color Doppler characteristics of thyroid nodules with the results of sonographically guided fine-...

Background: Thyroid is a frequent site of disease in human body. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a rapid, efficient, inexpensive and safe diagnostic method in these cases. FNAC has some limitations, particularly limited to representativity of samples and exact typing of neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions. Materials and Methods: In the present study, 130 cases of thyroid FNAC’s whic...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop an automated computer-aided diagnostic system for diagnosis of thyroid cancer pattern in fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) microscopic images with high degree of sensitivity and specificity using statistical texture features and a Support Vector Machine classifier (SVM). MATERIALS AND METHODS A training set of 40 benign and 40 malignant FNAC...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the utility of FNAC in patients with Thyroid Nodule. METHODS Records of all patients treated surgically for thyroid nodule(s) at Aga Khan University Hospital from January 2000 to December 2004 were reviewed. The patients who had pre operative FNAC as first line of the evaluation and the final post operative histopathology report available were included in the study. R...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of both palpable and non-palpable breast carcinomas has a high accuracy and sensitivity in dedicated centres. It is generally thought that low-grade carcinomas have a distinctly lower sensitivity due to discrete cellular atypia that may be difficult to appreciate. Grade 1 carcinomas make up about 45% of screening-detected breast carcinomas and a...

The results of a consecutive series of 1,349 fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies from the head and neck region of 1,193 patients has been reviewed in order to evaluate the efficacy of this method in the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenopathy (TBLN). Of the 108 patients whose fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) showed granulomatous changes, 68 had subsequent surgery and histological confi...