RESUMO
From January 1990 to December 2000, 202 patients with clinical evidence of liver disease underwent fine needle aspiration cytology of the liver. Of these, 102 patients were diagnosed as non-neoplastic lesions. These include diffuse parenchymal disease of liver, liver abscess, hepatitis, and granulomas. There were 100 patients with malignancies of the liver. Out of the above, 64 were due to metastatic carcinoma, 31 were primary hepatocellular carcinoma, 1 hepatoblastoma and in 4 patients the diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was made. By comparing with clinical and biochemical parameters, the diagnostic accuracy of the fine needle aspiration cytology, in this study, was found to be more accurate in malignant nodules of the liver as compared to other pathological lesion. The findings of fine needle aspiration cytology of the liver reported by other authors are discussed and it is concluded that this diagnostic method is a safe, useful and economic procedure with minimum complication and can be routinely done for assisting diagnosis of liver diseases in our clinical set up.
Assuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Biópsia por Agulha , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Hepatopatias/patologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Reprodutibilidade dos TestesRESUMO
26 AIDS patients within a period of 3 years were studied for associated malignant disease. There were 4 associated malignancy. The commonest AIDS associated malignant disease found is Kaposi's sarcoma seen in 2 patients. In one each of the AIDS patients, association of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute Promyelocytic leukemia (M3) was found. Findings by other workers are reviewed. With new trends in management of AIDS patients that prolong their survival, an increase in the incidence of AIDS associated malignancy is anticipated.
Assuntos
Infecções Oportunistas Relacionadas com a AIDS/tratamento farmacológico , Adulto , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Feminino , Infecções por HIV/complicações , Humanos , Índia/epidemiologia , Linfoma Relacionado a AIDS/complicações , Linfoma não Hodgkin/complicações , Masculino , Sarcoma de Kaposi/complicaçõesRESUMO
Of 158 cases of ovarian neoplasm seen within a period of 12 years in the department of pathology, Regional Medical College, Imphal 118 (74.68%) cases were benign and 40 (25.32%) were malignant. Surface epithelial tumours were the commonest being 66.45%. Ovarian carcinoma constituted 12.08% of all malignant gynaecological diseases and it formed the 2nd commonest gynaecological malignancy after carcinoma of the cervix. The peak incidence of benign tumours were in the age group of 21 to 30 years while that of malignant tumours were in the age group of 31 to 50 years.