title: Fine needle aspiration cytology of cervical lymphadenopathy with special reference to tuberculosis.
abstract: One hundred eighty cases of cervical lymphadenopathy have been studied by fine needle aspiration cytological examination followed by histopathologic examination of the excised lymph nodes. The diagnostic accuracy was 84.4% for tuberculous lymphadenitis by fine needle aspiration cytological examination. Observation of caseous necrosis (84.2%) and epithelioid cells (73.6%) were the most characteristic diagnostic features in the aspirated smears. Acid-fast bacilli were observed in 45.6% cases. Metastatic carcinoma also yielded a high diagnostic accuracy ie, 89%. Fine needle aspiration cytology has been found to be safe, quick, inexpensive with high diagnostic accuracy in cervical lymphadenopathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Microbiology, RG Kar Medical College, Calcutta.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dasgupta
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Poddar
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Mitra
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ganguly
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000473:pathology*