Results 121 to 130 of about 56,150 (166)

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Pancreas

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1976
Fine needle aspiration biopsy from the pancreas was carried out peroperatively in 60 patients. A suspicion of malignancy due to a palpaple mass in the pancreas was raised in 45 cases and confirmed by cytology in 27 cases. Of the remaining 18 cases in which malignancy was suspected, the majority were caused by penetrating gastroduodenal ulcers or ...
P, Frederiksen, P, Thommesen, H, Skjoldborg   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Iris

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1992
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) specimens obtained from nine consecutive iris lesions were examined. The lesions included primary malignant melanoma (four cases), metastatic melanoma, metastatic adenocarcinoma, leukemic infiltrate, lymphocytic infiltrate, and epithelial ingrowth.
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the mediastinum

The American Journal of Medicine, 1986
Fine-needle aspiration is a useful technique to identify neoplasms of many sites, such as breast, thyroid, and lung. Thirty-two mediastinum aspirates from 29 patients were reviewed. Five aspirates yielded insufficient material. Five aspirates were of benign lesions. Four aspirates were suggestive of but not diagnostic of malignancy.
J, Linder, G A, Olsen, W W, Johnston
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Lymphoma

Radiologic Clinics of North America, 1990
Patients with lymphoma undergo excisional biopsy of an affected lymph node for initial classification of their disease because accurate classification depends on the histologic characteristics of the neoplasm. However, fine needle aspiration cytology has a role in the management of lymphoma patients, particularly in those with recurrent or residual ...
C H, Carrasco, W R, Richli, D, Lawrence, R L, Katz, S, Wallace   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Thyroid Scanning or Fine-Needle Biopsy

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
Excerpt To the editor: The suggestion of Reasner and Isley (1)that fine-needle aspiration biopsy may be more cost effective as the initial diagnostic procedure in the evaluation of a solitary thyro...
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of colonic masses

Diagnostic Cytopathology, 1998
Between 1989 and 1996, fine-needle aspiration biopsy was performed in 22 patients with palpable colonic masses. In all of these patients colonoscopic examination was either not possible or could not be carried out successfully. The results of aspiration biopsy were confirmed by surgery and histopathological examination of the tissue.
S P, Misra, V, Misra, M, Dwivedi, M, Singh   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Pancreas

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 1998
This article covers basic topics such as indications, contraindications, techniques and complications. Individual sections focus on the differential diagnosis between adenocarcinoma and benign or reactive processes, diagnosis of pancreatic endocrine tumors, and the diagnosis of cystic lesions using pancreatic cyst fluid analysis including cytopathology.
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of orbital meningioma

Diagnostic Cytopathology, 1999
Fine-needle aspiration was performed on an orbital mass in a 53-yr-old woman. The cytologic diagnosis was meningioma, which was later confirmed by histologic study of biopsy material. The cytologic features of the aspirated material (nuclear pseudoinclusions, psammoma bodies, and cells arranged in syncytial sheets and whorls) allowed a rapid, reliable,
R, Mehrotra, S, Kumar, K, Singh, M P, Tandon, M, Singh   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy

Postgraduate Medicine, 1990
When fine-needle aspiration biopsy is done skillfully, it is an accurate, efficient, and cost-effective method for diagnosing many diseases in selected patients. This article describes its uses for palpable masses of the thyroid, breast, and peripheral lymph nodes and some nonpalpable lesions.
I M, Peterson, W J, Brink
openaire   +2 more sources

The hazards of fine-needle aspiration biopsy

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 1984
Review of the literature and the results of the hospital survey substantiate the widely held belief that fine-needle aspiration biopsy is a very safe procedure. However, serious and even fatal complications, although rare, can and do occur and it is important to be aware of the possibility and to take all the appropriate precautions in order to reduce ...
openaire   +2 more sources