fine needle aspiration (fna) technique is a well-known procedure in the diagnosis of various organ diseases. this study was conducted to evaluate the utility of fna in the dianosis of neck masses. fine needle aspiration was performed upon 123 patients with palpable nonthyroidal lesions at neck during a five-year period. in ten cases, fna findings were nondiagnostic. from the reminder 113 patien...

conclusion this study demonstrated that repeating the tfna procedure in pulmonary lesions improves the diagnostic yield without an increase in the rate of pneumothorax. objectives we aimed to investigate whether repeating ct-guided transthoracic fine needle aspiration (tfna) increases diagnostic yield and complication rate. patients and methods patients underwent tfna and the final diagnoses ac...

background and objectives: we aimed at evaluating the efficacy of fine needle aspiration biopsy (fna) in comparison with histopathology and demonstrating whether cytological study could be a proper diagnostic tool in orbital mass lesions. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study during 36 months, patients referred to our ophthalmologic center affiliated to tehran university of medical ...

conclusions iglm should be considered as one of the differential diagnoses when granulomas are encountered in breast fnac and biopsy. a definitive diagnosis of iglm can be made by identifying its characteristic histomorphology and ruling out other causes for granulomatous inflammation. an exact diagnosis is essential since the treatment for different granulomatous conditions of the breast varie...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration is a multistep procedure that involves proper clinical indication, correct selection of needles, adapting evidence-based techniques such as the fanning maneuver and not routinely using suction or the stylet for tissue sampling, and establishing reliable cytopathology support. Integrating cytopathology in the training curriculum and developing ...

Background: Good cytological sample is very important for the cytological diagnosis of thyroid nodules. The aim of this study was to evaluate the adequacy of prepared samples by the combination of aspiration and non- aspiration fine needle biopsy. Methods: In this descriptive – analytical study, sampling was done simultaneously for each patient in fine needle aspiration and non-aspiration biops...

This paper describes the results of transproctoscopic fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of rectal lesions. Fifty one consecutive patients referred with a presumptive diagnosis of rectal mass were subjected to proctoscopic examination when fine needle aspiration cytology, brush cytology and biopsy samples were taken. Of the 30 patients of malignancy of rectum in whom all the three...