[PDF] Top 20 Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy as a Preoperative Procedure in Patients with Malignancy in Solitary and Multiple Thyroid Nodules.

... differences in the prediction of TC by FNAB between the patients with a soli- tary thyroid nodule and those with multiple thyroid nodules, these two groups ... See full document

... Materials and Methods: A total of 510 subjects with thyroid nodules were analyzed by power Doppler and submitted to fine-needle aspiration biopsy ... See full document

... identified in two; in four patients the diag- nosis was made incidentally during routine medical ...available in one case. Sixteen patients had US ...iso and hypoechogenic ... See full document

... of nodules with repeated nondiagnostic ...nondiagnostic nodules were excluded due to the lack of a second FNAB and 180 nodules were excluded due to the absence of at least 12 months of ... See full document

... malignancies, and 30% cannot be defined using only their cytological features ...cases, and it is a heterogeneous category that includes nodules classified as a follicular lesion of undeter- mined ... See full document

... admission and chart registrations; and 97 ...the procedure was performed with cutting needles, which was not the subject of this ...340 patients are ...to biopsy once; 20 were of ... See full document

... Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women. Recently, the Brazilian radiological literature has been extremely concerned with the relevance of the role played by imaging meth- ods in ... See full document

... BACKGROUNDS: Fine needle aspiration cytology is an effective modality for diagnosis of breast ...benign and affect the young ...lesions and to determine the cytomorphologic patterns of ... See full document

... approach in the reproductive evaluation of 4 adult dogs, the fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and serum testosterone levels were used together with testicular volume ... See full document

... Austin and Cohen (1993) demonstrated that lesions that contact the pleura do not develop into ...20%, and that only ...increase in the frequency of pneumothorax occurred in lesions that were ... See full document

... cultured in RPMI-1640 medium (500 mil- liliters) (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Burlington, Ontario, Canada), supplemented with 5% by volume heat inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS; Invitrogen), 1,250 ... See full document

... MTC patients. In about two thirds of those patients, calcitonin levels re- main elevated even after extensive surgery ...metastases in patients with papillary thyroid ... See full document

... US. Fine-needle aspiration was performed on the nodules showing suspicious features, and if none showed any suspicious US features, FNA was performed targeting at the nodule with ... See full document

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... The chest X-ray revealed right-sided perihilar infiltrate (Figure 1), and the computed tomography scan revealed an area of nodular opacity with atelectasis in the upper right lobe (Figure 2). ... See full document

... read and signed a free and informed consent ...women and fifteen were men aged between 7 and 44 ...all patients underwent intra-oral and transcu- taneous US by a radiologist ... See full document

... disorders in female ...cytopathological and histopathological findings from mammary disorder cases in female dogs and evaluate the lesion cytopathology exam ...cytopathology and ... See full document

... The thyroid gland is one of the largest endocrine gland, and comprises two lateral lobes that are connected along the median line by an isthmus, as well as the TPL, which extends superiorly from the isthmus ... See full document

... OBJECTIVE: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology is being used as a diagnostic modality for neck ...of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in the diagnosis of neck ...cytology ... See full document

... between thyroid malignancy and autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) (33-39), as well as a higher rate of malignancy in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) nodules ...(22). In ... See full document