Open AccessCytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
Author(s) -
Sant Prakash Kataria,
Kiran Misra,
Gajender Singh,
Sanjay Kumar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cytology/journal of cytology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-5165
pISSN - 0970-9371
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9371.155242
Subject(s) - yolk sac , medicine , fine needle aspiration , biopsy , pathology , neoplasm , radiology , embryo , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare neoplasm that affects children and adolescents. Fine needle aspiration biopsy is an extremely useful procedure for the diagnosis of YST. Main objective is to describe the characteristic cytological features of fine needle aspirates of YST. We report a case of YST in a 4-year-old male child occurring at paravertebral region showing cytomorphological details.