Background and Objectives: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an established out- patient procedure used in primary diagnosis of palpable thyroid lesions. A modified technique fine needle capillary sampling (FNCS) obviates the need of suction, is less painful, patient friendly and reported to overcome the problem of inadequate and bloody specimens. The aim of our study was to compare the...

Pre-operative fine-needle aspiration biopsy findings have been compared with those of post-operative histopathology in 146 patients with parotid masses. Post-operative histology showed 124 benign and 22 malignant lesions: pre-operative fine-needle aspiration biopsy correctly identified 118/124 (95.1%) benign masses with an accurate classification of the tumour in 111/118 cases (94%). Fine-needl...

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...

BACKGROUND Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and KRAS must be detected mutation status before patients of lung cancer use targeted drugs. The aim of this study is to elucidate the significance of EGFR and KRAS mutation in fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology suspension specimens of non-small cell lung carcinoma. METHODS EGFR gene exons 18-21 and KRAS codons 12, 13 of exons 2 were perfo...

Background: In a country like India which has got rersource constraints, Fine needle aspiration cytology is a less time consuming, reliable, suitable for moribund patients as well as an inexpensive diagnostic method. It is suitable for the developing countries like India and state like Bihar for the diagnosis of lymphadenopathy at any approachable site. Fine needle aspiration cytology not only ...

Background. Fine needle aspiration cytology is considered the gold standard diagnostic test for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Fine needle aspiration cytology is a cost effective procedure that provides specific diagnosis rapidly with minimal complications. Based on the cytology findings, patients can be followed in cases of benign diagnosis and subjected to surgery in cases of malignant dia...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of fine needle aspiration cytology in the evaluation of thyroid lesions. METHODS The retrospective study comprised data of all patients who presented for fine needle aspiration cytology at the Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, between January 2009 and April 2011. The data was retrieved from the departmental records and the results were recorded. All cas...

BACKGROUND Mammary sclerosing lobular hyperplasia is an uncommon benign lesion of adolescent and young women. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of mammary sclerosing lobular hyperplasia is said to show characteristic features that include an absence of stromal fragments. CASE PRESENTATION In this article, we describe a case of sclerosing lobular hyperplasia that occurred in the right breast of ...

Tubercular mastitis is a rare clinical entity as mammary gland tissue, like spleen and skeletal muscle, offers resistance to the survival and multiplication of the tubercle bacillus. Tuberculosis of the breast can mimic carcinoma, whereas in young patients it can be mistaken for a pyogenic breast abscess, thus labeled a "great masquerader" in recognition of its multifaceted ...

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is regarded as the gold standard investigation in diagnosis & managment of thyroid swellings , also distinguish benign and malignant lesions, especially to rule out need of surgery. To study role of FNAC in Thyroid lesions.2) To correlate the cytological findings with histopathological diagnosis. A Total of 79 patients with Thyroid swellings submitted for ...