Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of Fine needle aspiration cytology in detection of thyroid swellings in our ENT unit and to assess the correlation between preoperative cytodiagnosis and postoperative histopathological diagnosis.Study design: Cross sectional studyPlace & Duration of study: Department of ENTHead & Neck Surgery, Charak hospital, Pokhara, Nepal, from ...

Objective: To evaluate the results of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis, its correlation with histology, to highlight its limitations and diagnostic pitfalls as well as the impact of FNAC on the decreased rate of surgery in clinically suspect thyroid lesions. Study design: FNAC was performed on 340 patients with thyroid enlargement over a period of six years. The cytologic...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an important method in the evaluation of goiter. However, difficulties are encountered when using this technique to distinguish Hashimoto's thyroiditis from thyroid lymphoma. This study sought to determine the diagnostic sensitivity of FNAC and to determine the effectiveness of chemotherapy in the treatment of thyroid lymphoma. ...

HYPOTHESIS Preoperative fine-needle aspiration cytologic examination (FNAC) exerts a statistically significant adverse effect on long-term clinical outcome in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS A total of 828 patients with clinical suggestion of HCC received surgical treatment. Ninety-one patients underwent ...

Background: Salivary gland tumours account for 3-10% of all the head and neck neoplasm. FNAC is being increasingly used in the diagnosis of salivary gland tumours. The objective of this study was to evaluate the age, sex and site distribution and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in various salivary gland lesions in correlation with their histopatholo...

PURPOSE The aim of this work is to evaluate the reliability and diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of cervical lymph nodes with an emphasis on discordant cases between the cytology and the histopathology. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study was conducted on 157 selected patients with cervical lymphadenopathy that had undergone FNAC. Cervical nodal enlargem...

To the Editor—We read with interest the paper on fineneedle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of thyroid nodules in a regional hospital setting by Cheung et al.1 We reported our findings in a private setting in this journal in 1999.2 It is difficult to compare the two studies due to the exclusion of follicular tumours from their statistical analysis. Unlike FNAC of other organs, FNAC of the thyroid sh...

*Corresponding Author Abstract Introduction: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of lymph nodes is a safe, easy, cheap and quick diagnostic tool, which involves the examination of a random sample of cells from a lymph node. Aim: To assess the distribution of diagnostic categories and the efficacy of lymph node fine needle aspiration cytology at our institution. These were compared to the lit...

Objectives: FNAC(Fine needle aspiration cytology) of the breast lesion is a simple, cost effective and less traumatic screening procedure that is valuable for distinguishing nonneoplastic lesions from neoplastic lesions. The aim of the present study was to correlate cytological findings with histopathological findings and to determine the accuracy of FNAC in the diagnosis of breast lesions. Met...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare sentinel node biopsy (SNB) and ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for preoperative evaluation of the N0 neck in T1 to T2 oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). METHODS Fifty-one consecutive patients with T1 to T2 N0 oral cavity SCC were included in this study. Preoperative ultrasound was performed in all patients. U...