Open AccessNeedle stick injuries during fine needle aspiration procedure: Frequency, causes and knowledge, attitude and practices of cytopathologists
Author(s) -
Neeta Kumar,
Prashant Sharma,
Shyama Jain
Publication year - 2011
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 - 10.4103/0970-9371.80727
Subject(s) - medicine , workload , iatrogenic injury , fine needle aspiration , nursing , surgery , radiology , biopsy , computer science , operating system
There is no study available on the frequency, predisposing factors and outcome of needle stick injury (NSI) in cytopathologists who perform fine needle aspiration (FNA).