The authors present their perspective on fine‐needle aspiration of the breast and analyze
the article by Boerner and Sneige in this issue of Cancer Cytopathology. See also pages …

This is the 1st edition of the book Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology: Interpretation and
Diagnostic Difficulties. The text is comprehensive, updated as per the present day …

In this issue, Poller and Schmitt provide an overview of false‐positive rates for cytologic
interpretations of malignancy in different specimen types and ask an intriguing question …

It is common practice to rescreen false-negative (FN) smears. However, it is inevitable that
this is done with some foreknowledge; at least it is known that the test smears contain one or …

Laboratory Medicine and the subsequent letter to the editor by Suen. 2 As emphasized in
both, diagnostic discrepancies can still occur in fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of salivary …

Expansively illustrated, this volume in the" Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology" series
encompasses aspiration cytopathology of all major body sites. Experts in the field provide …

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been known as a very sensitive and effective
method for preoperative diagnosis. We studied cases preoperatively diagnosed by FNAC …

When in July of 1996, I (MS) returned to my home country, Slovenia (formerly part of
Yugoslavia), I carried with me a preconception. Having been trained in the two of the very …

Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values are commonly used to report the performance
characteristics of a diagnostic test. With tests that by their nature have more than two classes …

It might be supposed that by the beginning of the 21st century AD much had changed in
medicine since the time of Hippocrates, but in a recent British Medical Journal 'Editor's …