title: Diagnostic importance of Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration in Diagnosing Hepatic Lesions among Sudanese Patients 2015.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Liver cytology is indicated and requested for evaluating hepatic masses in symptomatic or serendipitous cryptic discovered lesions.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To determine the cytomorphological patterns of hepatic lesions identified among a group of Sudanese patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is an analytical descriptive hospital-based study included 165 patients undergoing ultrasound-guided fine needle is an aspiration cytology (FNAC)for hepatic lesions, at Al-Amal Military Hospital and Khartoum Teaching Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Clinical data were reviewed. Air dried Diff Quick stained smears were grouped into unsatisfactory samples, benign lesions, and malignant neoplasms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our population were consisted of 35 (21.2%) females and 130 (78.8%) males, with a male to female ratio 3.7:1 and an age ranged between 47 to 80, and a mean age 57±7. Of 165 cases, 57 (34.5%) were benign, no atypia were noticed, 101 (61.2%) were malignant. Most investigated patients were found to have metastatic lesions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FNAC is a useful tool for investigating hepatic lesions.
authors.affiliation: University of Khartoum, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Khartoum, Sudan E-mail : ali.mahmoud.edris@uofk.edu.
authors.forename: Ali Mahmoud Mohammed
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Edris
authors.forename: Imtithal Mohamed
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Shaimaa Bushra
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Bakeit
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abashar
authors.forename: Emmanuel Edwar
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Siddig
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D061705:Image-Guided Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D013397:Sudan; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*