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Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Papulonodular Lesions of Skin: A Study of 50 Cases
Author(s) -
Suhag Patel,
Asha Mahadevappa,
GV Manjunath
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/22953.9107
Subject(s) - medicine , histopathology , cytology , fine needle aspiration cytology , pathology , cyst , skin tumours , tuberculosis , leprosy , radiology , dermatology
Skin is one of the frequent site of disease in human body. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is a safe diagnostic method in these cases. FNAC has some limitation, particularly related to representativity of samples, exact typing of skin adnexal tumours and classifying the nature of metastatic cutaneous nodules. Thus, FNAC alone may not give a confirmative diagnosis regarding few skin lesions. Hence, histopathological study has been the standard technique for the diagnosis of skin lesions.