AIM We aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and compared our FNAB results of non-thyroidal head and neck lesions with excisional biopsy results. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 866 aspiration material taken from different parts of head and neck region out of thyroid were evaluated at Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital Pathology Labor...

BACKGROUND The sensitivity for identification of malignant cells in conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) investigation is about 80%. This percentage is dependent on the number of examined cells, type of breast cancer, and experience of the examiner. The aim of our study was to estimate the supporting value of image DNA cytometry of FNAB of the breast, and do so by using different s...

OBJECTIVE Microcalcification is strongly correlated with papillary thyroid cancer. It is not clear whether macrocalcification is associated with malignancy. In this study, we aimed to assess the result of fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB) of thyroid nodules with macrocalcifications. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 269 patients (907 nodules). Macrocalcifications were cla...

The aim of the investigation was the assessment of the role of routine cytology and clonality evaluation using PCR in differential diagnosis of lymphoproliferative diseases of the orbit and eye adnexa. The investigations were carried out in cellular material collected via fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) from 29 patients aged 31-82 years, including 17 women and 12 men. Apart from routine cy...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pain levels associated with ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of neck masses. METHODS The pain immediately and 5 minutes after the procedure without use of local anesthesia was evaluated via 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS), 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS), and 4-category verbal rating scale (VRS) in 154 patient...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate a magnetization-prepared-rapid gradient-echo (MP-RAGE) sequence as a three-dimensional (3D) T1-weighted MR imaging technique to reveal lymph node metastases from carcinoma of the bladder and the prostate. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Using a 3D T1-weighted MP-RAGE sequence, MR images of 134 consecutive patients with prostatic carcinoma (n = 63) or u...

Application of the main principle that therapeutic decisions should be taken only on the basis of FNAB result, while US is used to assess qualification of patients for FNAB and to decide on the selection of lesions that should be submitted to FNAB may be associated with the risk of taking the wrong decision, based on erroneous assumptions. We must remember especially in the era of dominance of ...

Major health issues in the contemporary world, thyroid illnesses are distinguished by changes hormone output, gland hypertrophy, or both. The purpose of this study was to identify histological patterns people who had surgery. At Kathmandu University Hospital, a retrospective conducted over two-year period, from January 10, 2021, December 30, 2022. This includes all 300 patients underwent gender...

BACKGROUND As extra-cranial metastasis of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is rare, it may create a diagnostic dilemma especially during interpretation of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) cytology. CASE PRESENTATION We present transbronchial FNAB findings in a 62-year-old smoker with lung mass clinically suspicious for a lung primary. The smears of transbronchial FNAB showed groups of cells ...