A diffuse, chronic, usually bilateral, noninflammatory, nonneoplastic enlargement of major salivary glands is termed as Sialosis or Sialadenosis. It is an extremely uncommon cause for enlargement of the parotid gland. We hereby present a case of a 45-year-old female patient having a swelling at the left preauricular region. The swelling was gradually increasing in size since 6 months. On clinical examination, the swelling was 3 cm × 3 cm, mobile, and nontender. On ultrasonography, it was suggestive of benign parotid lesion or parotitis with cervical lymphadenopathy. On fine needle aspiration cytology, it was suggestive of sialadenosis. This is an extremely rare salivary gland lesion with specific cellular features. It is very important to distinguish sialadenosis from other causes of enlargement of the parotid gland as treatment modality differs.
Pap test is a simple yet effective screening method to detect cervical cancer in its early stage, and thus it helps to reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer. A total of 430 cases were studied after taking ethical clearance. The cytological diagnoses were made by Cytopathologist using Bethesda 2014 system for categorization of cervical smears. Cytological results were correlated with clinical features and histopathological results wherever biopsy was available. The total of the 430 cases studied 24 (5.58%) were inadequate to report, excluding these, of the total 406 cases 260 (64.04%) cases were symptomatic, and 146 (35.96%) were asymptomatic. Cytologic diagnoses were NILM –normal- 140 (55.23%)with a mean age of 38.48 years, NILM- inflammatory 128 (47.76%) with a mean age of 35.96 years, ASC-US 36 (8.86%) with a mean age of 36.69 years, ASC-H 18 (4.43%) with a mean age of 45 years, LSIL 42 (10.34%) with a mean age of 41.90, HSIL 22 (5.42%) with a mean age of 51.22 years, and invasive cancer 20 (4.92%) with a mean age of 61.8 years. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy of Pap test were 89.79%, 95.34%, and 95.65%, 89.13% and 83.33% respectively. Pap smear test is a simple, rapid, economical, still practical screening test to detect cervical intraepithelial lesions and cancer.
The present research has been conducted to find the utility of image-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of thoracoabdominal lesions. It also has attempted to study the frequency of distribution of thoracoabdominal lesions. At the same time tried to classify various thoracoabdominal lesions with the help of image-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology. The study of image-guided FNAC of thoracoabdominal lesions was carried out for twenty-four months, i.e. from MAY 2014 to APRIL 2016, which included 80 cases. Most patients (80%) were in the 5th-7th decade of life. All cases of ovarian lesions were diagnosed as malignant tumours on cytology, 08 were diagnosed as adenocarcinoma and one case of granulosa cell tumour. 06 out of 08 cases which diagnosed as adenocarcinoma on cytology, were confirmed on histology and diagnosed as mucinous cystadenocarcinoma(03 cases) and papillary serous carcinoma (03 cases). A case of malignant granulosa cell tumour was diagnosed on cytology and confirmed on histopathology. A case of mesenteric lymphadenopathy was diagnosed as granulomatous inflammation, suggestive of tuberculosis and was confirmed on histopathology with 100% accuracy. This was the only paediatric case in our study. A case of para-spinal abscess of thoracic vertebrae was diagnosed as chronic inflammation on guided FNAC, and the etiological agent was identified with histopathology as actinomyces.
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