The development of a ganglion in the hip joint is a rare cause of lower limb swelling. We herein describe a case of a ganglion of the hip with compression of the femoral vein that produced signs and symptoms that mimicked a deep vein thrombosis. Needle aspiration of the ganglion was easily performed, and swelling of the left lower limb promptly improved. Intensive follow-up of this case was imp...

BACKGROUND Increasing reports of intrauterine device (IUD)-related abdominopelvic actinomycosis have been described recently. Surgical therapy has been the usual treatment when tubo-ovarian abscess is identified. CASE A 38-year-old woman suffering from Actinomyces pelvic abscess unresponsive to medical treatment underwent transvaginal ultrasound-guided needle aspiration. It resulted in marked...

Thyrolipomas are rare capsulated mass lesions containing fat and thyroid tissue. We herein report the case of a 60-year-old man who had goitre for 10 years, with rapid enlargement of the gland during the last several months before presentation. Sonography, scintigraphy, CT, MR imaging, and sonography-guided fine needle aspiration were performed. Sonography and scintigraphy revealed an unusual m...

Primary extradural meningiomas presenting as scalp swelling is uncommon. Their diagnosis by fine needle aspiration is rare as majority of the lesions are hyperostotic. Primary intraosseus meningiomas involving the skull constitute only about 2% of meningiomas and are often mistaken for other primary or secondary bone tumors. The authors report a case of primary calvarial meningioma involving th...

In Taiwan, thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine gland malignancy and the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased four-fold in the past two decades. Fine-needle aspiration is an accurate and cost-effective method of evaluating thyroid nodules and has been the gold-standard diagnostic tool for thyroid tumors in Taiwan since the 1980s. This article reviews the history, current practice, r...

Correspondence: Dr. Sushama Bhatta, MD Department of Pathology, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital Lalitpur, Nepal E-mail: [email protected] Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology is regarded as a gold standard investigation in diagnosis of thyroid swellings. This study was carried out to evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology as a diagnostic tool in investigatio...

Fine needle aspiration is a useful procedure in the diagnosis of lung cancer, however controversy still remains as to whether it should be employed particularly in patients with operable lung cancer. We report herein a case of metastatic tumor at the site of transthoracic needle biopsy following a curative resection in a patient with stage IB bronchogenic carcinoma. The patient was managed with...

Endobronchial ultrasounded-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) for sampling enlarged hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes, and mediastinal tumours is a safe procedure and can be performed under sedation and local anaesthesia. Rare complications of this procedure include haemorrhage, pneumothorax, pneumonia, mediastinitis and pericarditis (Asano F et al., Complications associated wi...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore current breast carcinogenesis theories and the possibility of examining breast epithelial cells to confirm steps in the carcinogenic process and the relationship between intraductal sampling techniques and their role in enhanced risk prediction. DATA SOURCES Published articles, textbooks, and conference proceedings. DATA SYNTHESIS Examining breast epithelial ce...

A technique for obtaining needle aspiration cytology specimens from upper gastrointestinal lesions at endoscopy is described. The validity of the technique was initially confirmed by applying it to resected gastric carcinomas. Thirty seven endoscopically visualised lesions were then sampled by forceps biopsy, brush and needle cytology. Ten lesions were subsequently found to be carcinomas. Needl...