OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to establish the diagnostic accuracy, specificity and sensitivity of fine needle aspiration cytology(FNAC) for intra-oral tumors, comparing with histopathology as the gold standard. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty cases of FNA cytology from intraoral tumors was performed in AFID along with the demographic data and clinical information and then diagnosed a...

Filariasis infection is common in India and causes a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, namely, asymptomatic filariaemia, recurrent lymphadenitis, chronic lymphadenitis with swelling of the dependent limb, scrotal swelling, and tropical pulmonary eosinophilia. Waucheria bancrofti and Brugia malayi are the common species in India. Waucheria bancrofti is responsible for 90% of the cases. A...

Background: Lymphadenopathy is an abnormal increase in size and/ or altered consistency of lymph nodes. It is a very common clinical manifestation of regional or systemic disease caused by the invasion or propagation of either inflammatory cells or neoplastic cells into the node and serves as an excellent clue to the underlying disease. Objectives: The study was undertaken to evaluate the diagn...

BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is usually used to evaluate palpable nodes in patients with melanoma. The goal of our study is to review the sensitivity and specificity of this technique when applied to palpable but also to nonpalpable nodes. METHODS FNAC was performed during 1984-2007 in 1279 patients with suspicious lesions and/or lymph nodes. Indications for biopsy includ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in liver masses to isolate malignant from benign tumours and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from metastatic tumours. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Histopathology, Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar, from June 2004 to June 2005. METHODOLOGY All...

Soft tissue can be defined as non-epithelial extra skeletal of the body, exclusive reticuloendothelial system, glia and supporting tissu e various parenchymal organs. FNAC is a useful tool in distinguishing accurately between neoplastic non-neoplastic lesions. To study utility fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) diagnosis soft tumours. correlate with histopathological examination tumours imm...

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) represents the gold standard for determining the nature of thyroid nodules. It is a reliable method with good sensitivity and specificity. However, indeterminate lesions remain a diagnostic challenge and researchers have contributed molecular markers to search for in cytological material to refine FNAC diagnosis and avoid unnecessary surgeries. Nowadays, s...

Several previous studies focused on the ability of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) to diagnose carcinomas with neuroendocrine features (CNF). A pre-operative cytological diagnosis of malignancy was made in all seven CNF cases in the present study. However, we failed to accurately subtype most of these breast carcinoma cases. Five cases were reported as invasive carcinoma of no special ty...

Atypia/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) is a new category in the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (BSRTC) for which repeat fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is recommended. The aim of this study was to identify specific ultrasonography and clinical predictors of malignancy in a subset of thyroid nodules associated with cytology diagnoses of AUS/F...

Background: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is important for pre-operative and pre-treatment diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid lesions, thus decreasing the incidence of unwanted surgeries. Objectives: The present study aims to classify various cytomorphological lesions of the thyroid according to The Bethesda System for Reporting of Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) and correlate th...