background: clinically frank thyroid nodules are common and believed to be present in 4% to 10% of the adult population in the united states. in the current literature, fine needle aspiration biopsies are considered to be the milestone of a model which helps the physician decide whether a certain thyroid nodule needs a surgical approach or not. a considerable fact is that sensitivity and specif...

In Riedel’s thyroiditis, a rare chronic inflammatory disease of thyroid gland, fine needle aspiration is usually non-diagnostic because most often only follicular cells are obtained and not the fibrous material characteristic of this type of thyroiditis. Therefore the diagnosis is often only established by histopathologic study of the surgically obtained biopsy. The illustrated case is a 46-yea...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of core needle biopsy as a diagnostic tool for palpable breast lumps in developing countries as compared to fine needle aspiration cytology. MATERIAL AND METHOD All patients attending the surgery outpatient department with palpable breast lumps were subjected to fine needle aspiration cytology and core needle biopsy by the same o...

Thyroid large needle aspiration biopsy is disregarded because it is thought to be associated with pain. This is in contrast with our 32 years long experience. We surveyed reports of pain in patients examined with fine needle aspiration biopsy (78, 87.2% women, mean age 59 years) or FNAB+large needle aspiration biopsy (48, 87.5% women, mean age 60 years). Each patient was questioned regarding a)...

hashimoto’s thyroiditis is associated with an increased risk of developing papillary carcinoma of thyroid. we hereby report a case of hashimoto’s thyroiditis with papillary carcinoma in a 45-year-old ear old female diagnosed on fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) which was later confirmed on histopathological examination .such an occurrence, when both lesions are picked up on fnac in a patie...

conclusions the aspirates from the hypovascular and hypervascular sites of solid nodules are complementary and should be performed consecutively. results when only hypervascular site was used, adequate sampling was limited to 65% of the cases. when both sites were evaluated together, overall adequate sampling was 91%. adding a sample from the hypervascular site to hypovascular aspirate increase...

conclusions for the first time to our knowledge, we have reported a severe retropharyngeal and upper mediastinum cellulitis, probably due to the fna procedure in an immunocompetent young woman. case presentation a thirty-five-year-old female was admitted to hospital with hoarseness, laryngeal stridor and dyspnea without fever that emerged about 3 days after a first diagnostic fna. after the pro...

background and objective: fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) is a well-established method of diagnosis in palpable masses of various sites. this study was conducted to evaluate the usefulness of fnac as a diagnostic tool in the management of patients with cervical lymphadenopathy. patients and methods: totally 178 patients admitted to loghman-hakim hospital , tehran, iran, with cervical mas...

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...

introduction although thyroid nodules are usually benign, malignancy must always be ruled out. many efforts have been made to find. malignant nodules and reduce the number of unnecessary operations. in this study, our aim was to examine, after the more extensive use of fine needle aspiration (fna), whether the incidence of cancer finding has been increased. materials and methods we studied retr...