Perikala V Kumar

..Rarely have cystic changes been reported to occur in malignant tumors. They are usually small but large in rare cases. Giant breast cysts are very rare, and only a few cases have been reported...

..Pleomorphic adenoma of the breast is a rare benign tumor. Only a few cases have been reported. The histologic features have been described well. However, the cytologic findings have been described in only a few papers...

..This report describes the cytologic findings in a case of CEOT...

..CONCLUSION: Testicular fine needle aspiration is a simple and cost-effective method of evaluating testicular pathology in male factor infertility. It may yield more diagnostic and therapeutic material than does biopsy...

..The combination of thymic and parathyroid tissue in a neck mass in a patient so young is rarely reported...

..To describe the intraoperative crush preparation and the cytologic features of craniopharyngioma and the differential diagnosis...

..Multiple myeloma of the breast is very rare, and the fine needle aspiration (FNA) findings have not been reported before...

..To evaluate the effects of 0.5% silver nitrate, 20% chloroformic garlic extract, and 0.9% normal saline in induction of sclerosing cholangitis in the bile ducts of rabbits...

..These 2 cases are examples of tumorigenesis in PGD without an identifiable Y chromosome. Therefore, malignant degeneration of the streak gonads should be considered in the patients with 46, XX PGD...

..The exact origin of the tumor is unclear. However, osteoclastlike giant cells have been considered either part of a stromal process reactive to a neoplasm or a component of a primary neoplasm...

..Accuracy of intraoperative frozen section diagnosis is an important part of quality control in surgical pathology. In this study we try to evaluate the frozen section diagnosis in our center, a referral center in southern Iran...

..Nasal glioma is a rare benign tumor that usually occurs during infancy. We report a case of nasal glioma in a 6-month-old boy in which the histomorphologic features resembled those of an anaplastic astrocytoma...

..Fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology findings of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma have been described. However, there is no previous report on the cytologic findings of spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma at testicular or extratesticular sites...

..The most common sites of metastases are lung and bone. Only a few reports are available on fine needle aspiration biopsy findings from metastatic lesions of FTC...

..Testicular neoplasmns resembling ovarian serous tumors are rarely reported. We describe the first fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) finding of this type of tumor...

..However, when used with clinical and color Doppler findings, fine needle aspiration plays an important role in the preoperative diagnosis and management of CBTs...

..To evaluate the cytologic findings and pitfalls in the diagnosis of myoepithelioma of the salivary glands...

..To describe the cytologic findings of gastric xanthomas and to compare them with the findings of signet-ring adenocarcinoma because atypical xanthoma cells can be easily confused with signet-ring adenocarcinoma cells...

..To evaluate the hyperchromatic supranuclear stria (SNS) in various types of rhinopathies...

..Familial alveolar microlithiasis is a rare lung disease. In this study we describe the cytologic features of this disease in bronchoalveolar lavage...

..Cytologic and histologic differentiation from other hepatic tumors is necessary to determine appropriate therapy. Fine needle aspiration cytology of this rare tumor has not been reported in the literature before...

..However, in some cases the leukemic infiltration can be diagnosed with certainty, provided that the smears show the characteristic findings, such as Auer rods and neoplastic promyelocytes with azurophilic granules...

..To compare 2 methods of fixation in bloody Pap smears with Carnoy's solution and 96% ethyl alcohol...

..However, this pattern differs from the pattern seen in the United State and Europe, since Nodular sclerosis is the most common subtype in these regions...

..Charcot-Leyden crystals, intranuclear inclusions and dendriticlike cells were seen in this study. These findings have not been reported before in lymph node FNA smears of LCH...