title: The cytology of soft tissue tumours.
abstract: In order to achieve the best possible results of FNA certain prerequisites must be followed including a close cooperation between the surgeon and the cytopathologist, the combination of clinical, radiographic data and cytodiagnosis, awareness of the diagnostic pitfalls, and refraining from a specific diagnosis of benignity or malignancy when the cytologic criteria are doubtful. Fine needle aspiration and cytodiagnosis is a valuable tool in the preoperative diagnosis of soft tissue tumours and may replace open or coarse needle biopsy in most cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology & Cytology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akerman
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods*; D003584:Cytological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology*