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Background: Pleural effusion may be due to benign or malignant causes. Patient with known malignancy raises the possibility of pleural involvement. In majority of cases, malignant pleural effusion is associated with high morbidity and mortality.Confirmation of malignancy by cytological or histological examination of pleural fluid is currently important modality in establishing the diagnosis. Aim And Objective -To diagnose malignant pleural effusion by cytological and histological examination of pleural fluid at our centre. Methods: Cross-sectional study including all the patients with pleural effusion done on 101 cases. Results: Most of the effusions are benign. Initial pleural fluid cytology was positive for malignancy in 40% of patients. Thoracoscopic pleural biopsy confirmed 75% positive cases for malignancy.Malignancy causing pleural effusion are mostly due to carcinoma of lungs and breast. Conclusion: Cytological and histopathological examination of pleural fluid are useful diagnostic tools in patients with pleural effusion.
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Background: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and,by far,the most frequent cancer among women with an estimated 1.67 million new cancer cases diagnosed in 2012. It is well established that there are at least 4 main molecular subtypes of breast cancer based on different patterns of gene expression, and they have a considerable impact on outcome. Objective of this study is to establish a comparative analysis of breast cancer by IHC assay in western Odisha and to correlate with reference to tumor sizes, histological grade and lymph node involvement. Methods: This study was conducted in VIMSAR, Burla, Odisha from July 2014 to August 2017 where 66 Cases of radical mastectomy received for routine histopathological evaluation from Dept of Surgery for histological typing and evaluation of IHC status by Dako EnvisionTM FLEX/HRP detection reagent. ER, PR, Her2neu and Ki67 were evaluated as per ASCO/CAP guidelines. The molecular subtypes were correlated with known prognostic markers as tumor size,histologic grade and lymph node status. Results: Triple negative and Her2neu 20.9% of cases were more aggressive and correlated with increased tumor size,higher grade and majority showed lymph node involvement at an early stage. Conclusion: After overall assessment it was seen that majority of cases were Luminal A type followed by triple negative and Her2neu positive cases indicating not only the latter are related to poor outcome but also showed its increased prevalence in this part of odisha possibly because of late presentation. Molecular typing help categorize and plan targeted therapy to patients.
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Sixty cases of malaria were screened for sickle haemoglobin and G-6PD deficiency. Plasmodium vivax was detected in 40 (66%) and Plasmodium falciparum in 21 (35%) cases, with six of the latter having cerebral manifestation. Sickle Hb was found in 7 (11.5%) patients and G-6PD deficiency in 3 (5%) cases. Both patients with SS disease had vivax malaria, while of 5 with sickle cell trait 3 had only vivax, one only falciparum and one mixed infection. Amongst G-6PD deficient patients one had vivax and two falciparum malaria. One of the latter had both SC trait and G-6PD deficiency. Thus, adult persons with SS disease or SC trait were not found to be resistant to either vivax or falciparum malaria. A high frequency (5%) of G-6PD deficiency amongst malaria patients warrants a caution against indiscriminate use of 8-aminoquinoline drugs.