Objective: Spindle cell sarcomas constitute an important component of soft tissue sarcomas, where accurate grading is more important than histologic subtypes to plan treatment strategies and determine prognosis. To assess whether histologic criteria for grading sarcomas could be applied to fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) specimens of adult spindle cell sarcomas without knowledge of sarcoma...

OBJECTIVE The use of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in the investigation of goitres was introduced into our practice more than a decade ago. This is a review of its diagnostic accuracy for thyroid carcinoma seven years after the first evaluation and following the establishment of the 'FNAC Clinic'. METHOD This is a retrospective study of patients who had FNAC of goitres and the histop...

243 Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of orbital tumors as a rapid and minimally invasive diagnostic technique backs to 1975[1] and since then it was widely used as a primary investigative procedure for the diagnosis and management of various orbital and eyelid lesions.[2] This technique when performed in experienced hands is safe and of great value in the diagnosis of new primary, recurre...

Background and Objective:The current study aimed at observing the cytomorphological patterns in patients presenting with enlarged cervical lymphnodes, diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), their distribution with respect to age and gender, and determining the accuracy of FNAC as a diagnostic procedure incases with cervical lymphadenopathy.Methods:</...

Objective: To determine the efficacy of fine needle aspiration and cytology (FNAC) in solitary thyroid nodules at tertiary care Hospital.&#x0D; Materials Methods: This study was conducted department general surgery Liaquat University Hospital Jamshoro/ Hyderabad during one year from June 2015 May 2016. The included all subjects any gender age who had a nodule that confirmed clinically or throug...

Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology is a diagnostic tool in which cells are extracted from palpable swelling using FNAC gun or syringe and needle. It simple, speedy, safe, cost effective accurate technique being used worldwide. But, pitfalls come along making the correlation with histopathology often necessary. Materials Methods: This study was prospective conducted among 30 patients un...

BACKGROUND Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is a simple, minimally invasive, cost effective, outpatient based and a rapid diagnostic method for breast 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. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 222 breast aspirates wer...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relevance of (99m)Tc-SestaMIBI (MIBI) scan in the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules with oncocytic cytology. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty-four patients with a single (or prevalent) 'cold' solid nodule with Hurthle cells (HC) at fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) were studied. Cytological diagnosis of oncocytic metaplasia (OM) or HC tumor (HCT) was made when H...