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A veterans' hospital-based retrospective, clinicopathological study was undertaken to evaluate fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of male breast carcinoma. Two hundred and forty histologically proven cases of breast carcinoma spanning a period 17 yrs were identified and 13 of these were in males. Nine of these male patients had FNAC performed and were reported by the same cytopathologist (L.I.B.). In 8 of these cases FNAC was diagnostic of carcinoma. No material from FNA was obtained for diagnosis from one of these patients. We concluded that FNA is a useful technique in the diagnosis of male breast carcinoma.
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Neoplasias de la Mama Masculina/patología , Carcinoma/patología , Anciano , Biopsia con Aguja , Neoplasias de la Mama Masculina/diagnóstico , Carcinoma/diagnóstico , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios RetrospectivosRESUMEN
Early cytological diagnosis in a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain averted laparotomy and expedited successful management. The place of cytological diagnosis in patient management is discussed.
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Citodiagnóstico , Linfoma no Hodgkin/diagnóstico , Abdomen/cirugía , Adulto , Antineoplásicos/administración & dosificación , Biopsia , Líquidos Corporales/citología , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Quimioterapia Combinada , Humanos , Ganglios Linfáticos/patología , Linfoma no Hodgkin/tratamiento farmacológico , Linfoma no Hodgkin/patología , Masculino , Dolor/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Retroperitoneales/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Retroperitoneales/patologíaRESUMEN
The occurrence of sputum eosinophilia was investigated in 115 patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma. They were clinically divided into four groups; those with asthma only, those with asthma of equal or greater duration than chronic bronchitis, those with chronic bronchitis recently complicated by asthma and those with chronic bronchitis only. Although sputum eosinophilia was more common in the asthmatic groups there was no significant difference between the groups in the degree of sputum eosinophilia. When the groups were subdivided on the basis of methacholine and isoprenaline response (asthma subgroup, greater than or equal to 20% response to isoprenaline or greater than or equal to 40% response to methacholine; chronic-bronchitis subgroup, less than 10% response to isoprenaline plus less than 20% response to methacholine), there was a significant difference between the groups in the degree of sputum eosinophilia. However, sputum eosinophilia still occurred in the chronic bronchitics. In the asthmatic patients, there appeared to be no difference in the degree of sputum eosinophilia in those with positive skin tests, or on steroid medication, compared with those with negative skin tests or not on steroids.¿