… to verify focal lesions in the breasts: fine-needle aspiration biopsy and core-needle biopsy. …
Results: Pre-operative assessment of focal lesions in the breasts is crucial in the planning of …

… to verify focal lesions in the breasts: fine-needle aspiration biopsy and core-needle biopsy. …
Results: Pre-operative assessment of focal lesions in the breasts is crucial in the planning of …

… To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration, fine-needle biopsy and
extranodular fine needle biopsy in identifying focal lesions in cirrhosis, 100 consecutive ultrasound …

… We have been performing US guided fine needle biopsies on focal liver lesions since 1981.
Prior to 1990, FNAB was performed on focal solid liver lesions. A series of 50 FNAB biopsies …

… In a Japanese study, 18 focal lesions were evaluated exclusively on the basis of imaging
findings. Four of 160 patients (2.5%) were misdiagnosed and underwent surgery for a non-…

… fine-needle biopsies were performed in 1946 patients to diagnose focal liver lesions. The
diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle biopsw is very high (only one false positive was observed), …

… 62 patients with focal liver lesions. RESULTS: Cytology permitted a diagnosis of the lesion in
78… safe method for the diagnosis of focal hepatic lesions, with diagnostic accuracy similar to …

… Fine needle aspiration of focal liver lesions Fourteen percutaneous fine needle aspirates
(FNAs) of focal liver lesions … Ultrasoundguided FNA of focal liver lesions is recommended as a …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy and short-term complication
rate of ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytologic sampling of focal pancreatic …

… The aim of this study was to validate prospectively the accuracy of our diagnostic work-up
without FNB, for defining indications for surgery in a cohort of patients with focal liver lesions (…