Open AccessRole of fine-needle aspiration cytology in evaluating mediastinal masses
Author(s) -
Deepak Pandey,
Zuber Ahmad,
Imran Masood,
Saurabh Singh,
Zeeba S Jairajpuri
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.56344
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , malignancy , fine needle aspiration , cytology , mediastinal tumor , mediastinal diseases , fine needle aspiration cytology , lung , percutaneous , pathological , mediastinal mass , mediastinum , biopsy , pathology
Fine-needle aspiration cytology is an important and useful investigation and is considered next to imaging in the diagnosis of mediastinal lesions. We carried out this study in the Department of TB and respiratory diseases JNMC Aligarh from March 2000 to March 2002 with the following aims.