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Fine needle aspiration cytology. [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1985
Fine needle aspiration cytology is an inexpensive, atraumatic technique for the diagnosis of disease sites. This paper describes the technique and illustrates how it may be applied to the management of tumours throughout the body. The limitations of the method, the dangers of false positive reports, and the inevitability of false negative diagnoses are
J V Lever, P. A. Trott, A J Webb
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A comparative study of fine-needle aspiration cytology and histopathology in salivary gland lesions

Journal of Pathology of Nepal, 2011
Background: A wide variety of benign and malignant tumours originate in the salivary glands and insufficient tumour cells make their diagnosis difficult in some patients.
S Vaidya, A Sinha, S Narayan, S Adhikari, KC Sabira   +4 more
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Fine needle aspiration cytology of pilomatrixoma

Journal of Cytology, 2011
Aim : To delineate and characterize the cytomorphologic features of pilomatrixoma (PMX) helpful in correct diagnosis of the lesion on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC).
Cherry Bansal, Uma Handa, Harsh Mohan
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Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Cysticercosis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Sir Cysticercosis is an infection of the larvae of Taenia solium and it is endemic in Latin and Southern America, Africa, and rural areas of eastern Europe and Asia. In India, it is common in northern parts, with variable clinical manifestations depending on the sites of involvement and most common sites involved are subcutaneous and muscle tissues,
JITENDRA SINGH NIGAM, ANKIT SHARMA
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Does large needle aspiration biopsy add pain to the thyroid nodule evaluation? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
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.
Angelo Carpi, Giuseppe Rossi, Andrea Nicolini, Giorgio Iervasi, Matteo Russo, Jeffrey Mechanick   +5 more
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Reduced percentage of inconclusive reports and need for repeated fine needle aspirations in ultrasound versus free-hand parotid cytology

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2023
Background Fine needle aspiration cytology has been established as a minimally invasive, non-tumour seeding investigation of choice in the initial diagnostic pathway of parotid lesions. The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of fine needle
Eduardo Prades, Irina Garlea-Robu, Andrew Steven Harris, Muhammad Zain Mehdi, Hisham Zeitoun, Arvind Kumar Arya   +5 more
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Computed tomography versus ultrasound/fine needle aspiration biopsy in differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules: a retrospective analysis

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2021
Introduction: Ultrasound sonography provides a quick method for determining which nodule to sample for fine needle aspiration biopsy in thyroid nodules.
Wang Tao, Zhu Qingjun, Zheng Wei, Zhou Fang, Zhou Lei, Ni Yuanyuan, Hu Kefu   +6 more
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Comparison of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology and Histopathology in the diagnosis of lymph node pathologies at health facilities located in Hawassa: A 5-year retrospective study

SAGE Open Medicine, 2022
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in the diagnosis of lymph node pathologies in comparison with Histopathologic examination.
Endeshaw Taye, Musa Mohammed Ali, Alemayehu Toma, Alemwosen Teklehaimanot   +3 more
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A Comparative Study of Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology versus Core-needle Biopsy Histology in Thyroid Nodules

Zhongliu Fangzhi Yanjiu, 2020
Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and complications between ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology and core needle biopsy histology in thyroid nodules.
LI Xia, XIAO Yingcong
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Contrast-enhanced harmonic endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions: a retrospective study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The negative predictive value of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions remains low, and the biopsy specimens are sometimes inadequate for appropriate pathological diagnosis.To evaluate the ...
Xiaojia Hou, Zhendong Jin, Can Xu, Minmin Zhang, Jianwei Zhu, Fei Jiang, Zhaoshen Li   +6 more
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