CHAPTER 12 Kidney, adrenal and retroperitoneum proper Svante R. Orell, Jerzy Klijanienko Clinical aspects The place of FNAC in the investigative sequence By the 1960s, Scandinavian workers had already demonstrated…
CHAPTER 14 Skin and subcutis Svante R. Orell, Henryk Domanski Clinical aspects The place of FNAC in the investigative sequence Fine needle biopsy (FNB) and cytodiagnosis has found only limited…
CHAPTER 10 Liver and spleen Bastiaan de Boer*, Clinical aspects Liver The place of FNA in the investigative sequence Malignancy in the liver, primary or metastatic, is usually inoperable at…
CHAPTER 17 Paediatric tumors Reda S. Saad, Harsharan K. Singh, Jan F. Silverman Clinical aspects Incidence of paediatric tumors and histologic types Paediatric tumors show a distinctive incidence, histology, and…
CHAPTER 11 Pancreas, biliary tract and intra-abdominal organs Bastiaan de Boer*, Clinical aspects In the developed world, the incidence of pancreatic cancer has risen threefold since the 1920s. Prognosis is…
CHAPTER 18 Infectious diseases Andrew S. Field Clinical aspects Introduction The widespread use of FNB for both palpable and impalpable lesions where the clinical and imaging differential diagnosis (DD) includes…
CHAPTER 2 The techniques of FNA cytology Svante R. Orell, Philippe Vielh Basic techniques Svante R. Orell The success of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) depends to a high degree…
CHAPTER 9 Mediastinum Amanda Segal, Felicity A. Frost, Kim R. Geisinger Clinical aspects A broad range of mass lesions is found in this site, of which about 40% are malignant….
CHAPTER 3 Imaging methods for guidance of aspiration cytology Suzanne Le P. Langlois, Steve Chryssidis Percutaneous biopsy is a well-established and routine practice in imaging departments,1,2 and is a frequently…
