title: Role of fine-needle aspiration cytology in childhood malignancies.
abstract: During the last 4 yr, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been employed in 1,474 patients in 0-15-yr age group at our institute. Of these, 245 patients were found to have malignant disease, including primitive neuroectodermal tumors, hepatoblastoma, nephroblastoma, sarcoma, and epithelial malignancies. Four metastases from medulloblastoma and two each from astrocytoma and meningioma were confirmed without open biopsy. FNAC interpretation was easy when cytologic findings were correlated with relevant clinical and radiologic data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajwanshi
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Marwaha
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Nijhawan
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies