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…
Kidney, adrenal and retroperitoneum proper
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…
Skin and subcutis
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…
Liver and spleen
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…
