Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness of CT-guided thoracic biopsy in diagnosis lung and mediastinal malignancies. Materials methods . A retrospective analysis 32 cases transthoracic was performed. Lung masses suspicious for malignancy with a size more than 2.0 cm area available manipulation were indication Cor-biopsy additional examination impression smears. step-by-step procedure involved ...

Objectives Cytological biopsies are an integral additional test to abdominal ultrasound when a lesion is identified, but there little published on factors that may impact achieving clinically useful sample of gastrointestinal lesions obtained by ultrasound-guided fine-needle cytologic biopsy. This retrospective, descriptive study aimed assess influence the clinical usefulness submitted cytologi...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Fine needle aspiration (FNA) material is increasingly being used to determine various prognostic parameters in patients with carcinoma breast. It was recommended that cytological grading should be part of all FNA reports of breast carcinoma so that preoperative prognostication could be done on it. However, the most reliable method for cytological grading that closely ref...

In 100 consecutive patients ultrasonically guided histological and cytological fine needle biopsy specimens were obtained from pancreatic lesions using two different needles with an outer diameter of 0.6 mm. Specimens taken by both cytological and histological fine needle biopsy were examined blindly by two pathologists. When related to the final and reliable diagnosis obtained in 57 patients, ...

AIM To demonstrate the role of cytopathology in examining tumours found at post mortem examination. METHODS Tumour deposits were found in 25 hospital necropsies. Cytological diagnosis made at the time of necropsy was compared with subsequent paraffin wax embedded histological sections. RESULTS In 19 out of 20 cases with no previous histological diagnosis, cytology at the time of necropsy pr...

BACKGROUND Biopsy needles have recently been developed to obtain both cytological and histological specimens during endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). We conducted this study to compare 22-gauge (G) fine needle aspiration (FNA) needles, which have been the most frequently used, and new 25G fine needle biopsy (FNB) needles for EUS-guided sampling of solid pancreatic masses. METHODS We conducted a re...

OBJECTIVE Dysplastic nevus is described as an important factor in increasing the risk of melanoma. Many authors suggested dysplastic nevi should be graded according to architectural and cytological features. Dermal fibroplasia can be in concentric or lamellar fashion. In our study we aim to grade architectural and cytological atypia in dysplastic nevi and to assess the relationship between atyp...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether is possible to predict clinical outcome of cervical lesion by immunoassaying performed on cervical smears. During the two year study period the cervical smears of 81 patients were collected. All patients were tested for human papillomavirus (HPV) infections using Amplycor HPV test. Sixty-six of them were tested as positive for high risk types (hr...

viruses are the most common causes of aseptic meningitis. early detection, treatment and management of viral meningitis are priority. this study aimed to evaluate common viral meningitis in children referred to taleghani pediatrics hospital in gorgan, south east of caspian sea, iran. in this descriptive study csf and blood samples were taken from 40 children with negative bacterial culture who ...