Asymptomatic malaria carriers and their characterization in hotpops of malaria at Mangalore.

Objective: This study aimed to identify asymptomatic malaria carriers and study the differences in local and migrant population in Mangalore.

Materials And Methods: This study was conducted using two-stage cluster sampling. In the first stage, wards were randomly selected.

Utility of fine-needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of HIV lymphadenopathy.

Background: India, being a developing country, harbors the third largest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected population in the world, and HIV-associated lymphadenopathy is commonly encountered. HIV lymphadenopathy is more commonly generalized and pathology ranges from reactive lymphoid hyperplasia to infections like tuberculosis to neoplasms such as lymphoma and Kaposi sarcoma. The study intended to assess the utility of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology in HIV lymphadenopathy.

Neoplastic Meningitis: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital from Coastal India.

Introduction: Neoplastic involvement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) secondary to known or unknown primaries elsewhere is a poor prognostic factor and is equivalent to stage IV disease.

Aim: The aim of the study is to analyse the cytological features of neoplastic meningitis in a tertiary care center.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study of 400 consecutive CSF samples was done in the cytology laboratory of our hospital.

Mixed epithelial and stromal tumor - A solid-cystic renal neoplasm undergoing malignant transformation: A rare case report.

We present a case of 53-year-old female who came with the complaints of mass on the right side of the abdomen noticed 3 weeks back. There was no history of localized swelling or rise of temperature, no history of weight loss, or evening rise of temperature. On examination, there was a flank mass which was bimanually palpable and tender.

The Significance of Glandular Cells on Conventional Cervicovaginal Smears: Experience from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Coastal India.

Introduction: Glandular lesions of the female genital tract (FGT) are quite uncommon compared to squamous lesions. Their cytological diagnosis is difficult because of their architectural and cytological complexity, as well as the lack of experience of many cytopathologists in this field. The aim of this study was to determine the significance of Papanicolaou (Pap) smears in the diagnosis of glandular FGT lesions.

Spectrum of Lesions Affecting the Renal Pelvis and Pelviureteric Junction: A 13-Year Retrospective Analysis.

Introduction: Both, the renal pelvis and the ureter, are affected by developmental, reactive and neoplastic disorders, though rare in incidence.

Aim: This series of cases were analysed to study the clinicopathological characteristics of the common and comparatively rare lesions involving the renal pelvis and pelviureteric junction.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective collection of 476 nephrectomies and pelviureteric junction resections, received over a period of 13 years from 2001 to 2013 was done.