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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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Use of strain ultrasound elastography versus fine-needle aspiration cytology for the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules: a retrospective analysis [PDF]

Clinics, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Fine-needle aspiration cytology is the risk stratification tool for thyroid nodules, and ultrasound elastography is not routinely used for the differential diagnosis of thyroid cancer.
Xianghua Yang, Dongcai Zhai, Tao Zhang, Shenjie Zhang   +3 more
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CT-guided biopsy of lung lesions: defining the best needle option for a specific diagnosis [PDF]

Clinics, 2014
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance of fine and cutting needles in computed tomography guided-biopsy of lung lesions suspicious for malignancy and to determine which technique is the best option for a specific diagnosis. METHODS: This retrospective
Marcos Duarte Guimarães, Edson Marchiori, Bruno Hochhegger, Rubens Chojniak, Jefferson Luiz Gross   +4 more
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Proteomic approach used in the diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis: a case report [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012
Introduction Riedel's thyroiditis, a rare thyroid disease, can be difficult to diagnose prior to surgical removal and can be confused with malignancy both clinically and cytologically. Case presentation We report the case of a 72-year-old Caucasian woman
Iacconi Pietro, Giusti Laura, Da Valle Ylenia, Ciregia Federica, Giannaccini Gino, Torregrossa Liborio, Proietti Agnese, Donatini Gianluca, Mazzeo Salvatore, Basolo Fulvio, Lucacchini Antonio   +10 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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Fine needle aspiration of Histiocytic sarcoma

Journal of Cytology, 2014
Histiocytic sarcoma is derived from histiocytes and is among the rarest of the tumors affecting the lymphoid tissue. We report a case of a histiocytic sarcoma arising from the lymph node in a 35-year-old male who came for a fine needle aspiration ...
Varuna Mallya, Anju Bansal, Sujala Kapoor   +2 more
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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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