background: the role of the breast clinics is to diagnose breast cancer and reassure patients with benign disorders. one stop clinics - same day reporting - further reduce anxiety caused by the delay in the results. the first one stop clinic was introduced in squh–oman in september 2011. methods: this retrospective analysis of 395 consecutive cases presented to breast one stop clinic at squh wa...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology (US-guided FNAC) can identify microscopic involvement of lymph nodes as in breast cancer and avoid surgical sentinel node (SN). Its utility in melanoma patients is controversial and subject of this study. METHODS Between 2001 and 2010 over 1000 stage I/II consecutive melanoma patients prospectively underwent US-FNAC prior to SN biop...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the diagnostic value of ultrasound-guided (US-guided) fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), thyroglobulin measurement on fine-needle aspiration (FNA-Tg), combined US-guided FNAC, and the ratio between FNA-Tg and serum Tg (FNA-Tg/serum Tg) for patients with cervical lymph node (CLN) metastases from thyroid carcinoma. METHODS We selected 148 pati...

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& Objective: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an easy, rapid, and less hazardous tool to diagnose the intra-abdominal lesions with various imaging modalities adding to its sensitivity and accuracy. However, sometimes it does not yield adequate information for precise diagnosis and the risk of false-negative and indeterminate diagnosi...

BACKGROUND Salivary gland swellings can result from tumours, an inflammatory process, or cysts. It can sometimes be difficult to establish whether pathology arises from the salivary gland itself or adjacent structures. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a simple, rapid and safe method to diagnose salivary gland swelling. FNAC has high sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. The aims of th...

s: Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a well established, simple, quick, inexpensive and minimally invasive diagnostic technique. Neck region of human body is relatively small area but houses a fairly large number of organs with a variety of lesions and consequently require from conservative to aggressive management protocols. Aims and objectives: To assess sensitivity and sp...

Aim. Enlarged cervical lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with thyroid cancer are usually assessed by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Thyroglobulin (Tg) is frequently elevated in malignant FNAC needle wash specimens (FNAC-Tg). The objectives of the study were to (1) determine an appropriate diagnostic cut-off for FNAC-Tg levels (2) compare FNAC and FNAC-Tg results in a group of 108 patients ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to find out the common causes of breast lump and to determine the sensitivity and specificity of FNAC of breast lump. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of FNAC of breast done in pathology department of NMCTH from January 2003 to December 2005. FNAC findings were correlated with data from histopathology records to determine the sensitivity a...

Breast lump is a very common presentation in surgery and gynae OPD with increasing awareness in patients. Breast cancer is second most common cancer in Indian women. FNAC is simple, safe and rapid method for diagnosing breast lumps. FNAC has high sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. Aim of this study was to correlate FNAC findings with histopathology and determine sensitivity and specificity ...