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Tuberculosis Diagnostics
Fine needle aspiration cytology diagnoses tuberculosis and acute and chronic epididymo-orchitis
September 19th, 2006
Fine needle aspiration cytology differentially diagnoses tuberculosis and acute and chronic epididymo-orchitis from epididymal nodules. "Epididymal nodules are not infrequently encountered in surgical practice. These are generally small and slippery and fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is not easy. "But as it is rapid and less traumatic than a biopsy, this is a favored technique in the assessment of epididymal nodules," scientists writing in the journal Cytopathology report. According to the authors, "In the present study, all the cases of epididymal nodules aspirated from January 1998 to August 2004 were retrieved...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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