BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration (FNA) has led to a decrease in unnecessary surgeries for thyroid nodules. This study was designed to compare diagnostic value of FNA and frozen section methods in the follicular lesions. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study based on the medical records of 42 patients who were referred to surgery clinic of Rasool-e-Akram hospital in Tehran with complaint of...

abstract background: we aimed to evaluate an approach to induced abortions during early pregnancies that controls the suction pressure and restricts the duration of the procedure. methods: three hundred patients programmed for induced early pregnancy abortions, hospitalized in the shandong provincial maternity & child care hospital from october 2013 to october 2015, were enrolled. patients were...

ABSTRACT: Hypothyroidism is rarely observed in cats. This article reports the case of a thirteen-year-old feline with one-year history bilateral cervical swelling that had majorly grown size two weeks prior to animal’s admission. The cat presented dysphonia, lethargy, weight gain, and constipation. On physical examination, hypothermia was observed, rectal temperature 36.5 ºC. Fine-needle aspira...

OBJECTIVE To audit the accuracy and impact on the frequency of operation of fine needle aspiration cytology of isolated thyroid swellings. DESIGN Prospective analysis over six years of cytological predictions compared with histological findings. SETTING Thyroid clinic serving the Grampian region. PATIENTS 395 Consecutive patients presenting with an isolated thyroid swelling, 307 of whom u...

Thyroid cancer is usually diagnosed by ultrasound imaging and fine-needle aspiration biopsy. However, diagnosis of follicular thyroid carcinomas (FTC) difficult because FTC lacks nuclear atypia a consensus on histological interpretation. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) offers the potential to diagnose it can measure tumor hypoxia, while image reconstruction still challenging mainly due complex...

Secretion of adequate levels of progesterone from a proper corpus luteum (CL), which develops out of the cells of a healthy preovulatory follicle, is a key-factor for establishment of a pregnancy. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between morphological and secretory characteristics of preovulatory follicles and their corresponding corpus luteum with regard to the post-pa...