INTRODUCTION A hydatid cyst of the breast is rare and often goes unnoticed by mammography and ultrasound. Preoperative diagnosis may be performed using fine-needle aspiration cytology, which also minimizes the risk of intraoperative rupture. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 70-year-old Spanish woman who was diagnosed with a hydatid cyst using fine-needle aspiration cytology before su...

Fine needle aspiration cytology is an inexpensive, atraumatic technique for the diagnosis of disease sites. This paper describes the technique and illustrates how it may be applied to the management of tumours throughout the body. The limitations of the method, the dangers of false positive reports, and the inevitability of false negative diagnoses are emphasised. In a clinical context the meth...

Follicular re-aspiration yielded similar oocyte recovery compared to direct aspiration (RR: 0.7; 95% CI: −0.9, 2.4; p=0.38), but entailed a longer procedure time (180 seconds; p<0.001) among low responding patients. A randomized comparison trial was performed to evaluate whether follicular re-aspiration using a double-lumen retrieval needle improves oocyte recovery when compared to direct folli...

Background & Objective: Chronic non healing ulcers or scar undergoing malignant transformation is a rare phenomenon with an estimated incidence of 2%. Though, numerous predisposing factors have been identified, still it is rarely diagnosed and commonly mistaken for a benign condition. The objective of this study was to verify the efficacy of the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology/ Scrape cytology ...

BACKGROUND Tonsillitis is one of the most common childhood afflictions. This prospective study was designed to explore the possible role of fine needle aspiration of recurrently inflamed tonsils in determining their core flora. RESULTS Seventy-seven patients at DHQ Hospital Haripur undergoing tonsillectomy for recurrent tonsillitis were included in the study. Colonies grown from fine needle a...

The results of 67 transjugular liver biopsies are described. Two failures were encountered due to inability to pass the needle into acutely angulated hepatic veins. Thirty-four patients underwent a liver aspiration biopsy using a Colapinto needle, while the remainder were biopsied using a trucut needle. The success rate with the Colapinto needle was 68% and with the trucut model, 97%. Capsular ...

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 ...

A new versatile transbronchial needle, the modified type 2B retractable needle, was used for the staging and diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma. It combines the advantages of its predecessors, the fixed type 1A needle and the retractable type 2A needle, such as convenience of usage and the added ability to sample peripheral as well as central lesions. The new modified type 2B retractable needl...

Background and Objectives: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an established out- patient procedure used in primary diagnosis of palpable thyroid lesions. A modified technique fine needle capillary sampling (FNCS) obviates the need of suction, is less painful, patient friendly and reported to overcome the problem of inadequate and bloody specimens. The aim of our study was to compare the...

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...