Category I: Nondiagnostic
Fig. 2.1 Nondiagnostic. Tissue is uninterpretable due to obscuring blood clot. Tissue casts and clots expressed onto glass slides should be picked up off the glass slide with the needle…
Category IV: Neoplastic: Benign
Fig. 5.1 Serous cystadenoma. The delicate cells lining the fibrous septae are destroyed by the smearing process leaving behind acellular fibrous tissue fragments in a bloody background and leading to…
Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Martha Bishop Pitman and Lester James LayfieldThe Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology System for Reporting Pancreaticobiliary Cytology10.1007/978-3-319-16589-9_1 1. Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting Martha Bishop Pitman1 and Lester James Layfield2 (1) Department…
Head and neck; salivary glands
CHAPTER 4 Head and neck; salivary glands Svante R. Orell, Jerzy Klijanienko Clinical aspects The proximity of tissues of various types and the wide range of primary and metastatic neoplasms…
Male and female genital tract
CHAPTER 13 Male and female genital tract Miguel Perez-Guillermo, Svante R. Orell Male genital tract, prostate and testis Miguel Perez-Guillermo Introduction Transrectal fine needle aspiration (tFNA) of the prostate was…
Lung, chest wall and pleura
CHAPTER 8 Lung, chest wall and pleura Amanda Segal, Felicity A. Frost, Jan F. Silverman Clinical aspects Lung Although sporadic reports of the diagnosis of lung carcinoma by fine needle…
Lymph nodes
CHAPTER 5 Lymph nodes John Miliauskas Clinical aspects Lymphadenopathy is a commonly encountered clinical problem which has a multitude of causes. The commonest cause of peripheral lymphadenopathy is a non-specific…
Soft tissues
CHAPTER 15 Soft tissues Måns Åkerman, Henryk Domanski Clinical aspects The use of FNB and cytodiagnosis in the primary evaluation of a mass lesion in the soft tissues has become…
