The role of fine needle aspiration biopsy cytology in the evaluation of the clinically solitary thyroid nodule.

The imputation that a clinically solitary nodule is a suspicious sign of carcinoma has been the cause of too many surgical procedures as well as the subject of much controversy. This study evaluated the effectiveness of fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy cytology in diagnosing the uninodular goiters in 286 patients who presented with clinically solitary nodules. The final diagnoses in these cases included carcinoma (4.

Diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma through the cytologic examination of sputum, with special reference to tumor typing.

The results obtained in the cytologic study of sputa from 630 patients are presented. There were 251 cases of bronchogenic carcinoma; diagnosis through sputum examination was possible in 57.4 per cent of the patients.