Multinucleated Giant Cells in Fine Needle Aspirates

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Ling Tsou ◽  
Yung-Lian Hsiao ◽  
Tien-Chun Chang
Keyword(s):  
Giant Cells ◽  
Multinucleated Giant Cells ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Fine Needle Aspirates

Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Diagnosis of Breast Paraffinoma

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Kenneth Y.Y. Kok ◽  
Pemasiri Upali Telisinghe ◽  
Sonal Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Breast Carcinoma ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Giant Cells ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Multinucleated Giant Cells ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Paraffin injections for breast augmentation once a popular form of mammoplasty are now considered obsolete. It had been abandoned by clinicians because of its associated serious complications. The practice is however still available and is being practiced by nonmedically qualified people. Paraffin injection results in the formation of multiple foreign-body granulomas known as breast paraffinoma. The clinical features of breast paraffinoma can mimic and be mistaken for breast carcinoma or inflammatory breast carcinoma. The use of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the evaluation of patients with breast paraffinoma has not been fully evaluated. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Retrospective review was performed on 30 patients who presented with breast paraffinoma between June 1, 2010, and June 30, 2020, who also had FNAC as part of their breast lump evaluation. <b><i>Results:</i></b> FNAC of 73.3% patients showed multinucleated giant cells and macrophages or histiocytes containing engulfed clear, empty intracytoplasmic vacuoles of varying sizes. In 13.3% of the patients, macrophages or histiocytes with engulfed clear intracytoplasmic vacuoles of varying sizes were seen. In 6.7% of patients, multinucleated giant cells containing engulfed vacuoles of varying sizes were seen, and in 6.7% of patients, hypocellular smears with large amount of clear spaces were seen. Oily droplets were seen in the background of all the smears, and there were no malignant cells seen. These features were compatible with breast paraffinoma. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> Most patients with breast paraffinoma can be managed conservatively and they do not require further treatment; FNAC with its characteristic features can provide the reliable diagnosis of breast paraffinoma and therefore sparing these patients from more invasive diagnostic procedures.

Stromal Cellular Fragments in Breast Fine Needle Aspirates: Think Outside of the Box

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 450-455
Author(s):  
Rui Caetano Oliveira ◽  
Fernando C. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Mammary Carcinoma ◽  
Giant Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Fine Needle Aspirates ◽  
Epithelial Component ◽  
Phyllodes Tumour ◽  
Epithelial Lesion

Background: The presence of highly cellular stromal fragments in breast fine needle aspirates (FNA) suggests some classical differential diagnoses such as cellular fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumour (PT), metaplastic carcinomas, and some mesenchymal/myoepithelial proliferations. The other components of the smears can help in the differential diagnosis, but the presence of a low-grade epithelial proliferation does not always represent a fibro-epithelial lesion as we demonstrate in these two cases. Cases: We discuss two cases of breast FNA, previously presented in a slide seminar at the 29th European Congress of Pathology in Amsterdam, where the common cytological finding was the presence of stromal cellular fragments together with an epithelial component. One case is a typical PT and the other is a case of a mammary carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells. Conclusion: Mammary carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells is an unusual type of breast carcinoma that should be included in the differential diagnosis of breast lesions containing cellular stroma. Since the associated carcinoma is usually low grade, careful evaluation for malignant cells on cytological smears is necessary for an accurate differential diagnosis with PT where the epithelial component is benign.

Fine Needle Aspiration of Salivary Gland Lesions with Multinucleated Giant Cells

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 671-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahya Daneshbod ◽  
Bijan Khademi ◽  
Maryam Kadivar ◽  
Parvin Ganjei-Azar
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Giant Cells ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Multinucleated Giant Cells ◽  
Fine Needle

Multinucleated giant cells in a breast fine needle aspirate

Cytopathology ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton Ho ◽  
MÁire A. Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Giant Cells ◽  
Multinucleated Giant Cells ◽  
Fine Needle Aspirate ◽  
Fine Needle

LYMPHOID INFILTRATION IN TOXIC GOITRES STUDIED WITH FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY

1972 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 480-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Lymphoid Cells ◽  
Aspiration Biopsy ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Fine Needle Aspirates ◽  
Needle Aspiration Biopsy ◽  
Lymphoid Infiltration ◽  
Long Acting

ABSTRACT Cytodiagnostic fine needle aspiration biopsy specimens from toxic goitres were studied for signs of lymphoid infiltration. Comparison with histological sections of specimens obtained by surgery showed that an excess of lymphoid cells in the aspirate smears corresponded to a large number of lymphoid foci in these sections. Excess of lymphoid cells in the fine needle aspirates was also positively correlated with the occurrence of circulating thyroid antibodies against thyroglobulin and/or cytoplasmic antigen, but not with the presence of the long-acting thyroid stimulating factor, LATS. It also varied with age in that it was most common in the youngest patients and in patients between 40–55 years, while lymphoid infiltration was seldom seen in patients over 55 years. A finding of practical clinical interest was that in toxic goitres with cytological signs of lymphoid infiltration hyperthyroidism had less tendency to recur after treatment with thiocarbamide drugs than in those without such signs.

The value of parathyroid hormone determination in ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspirates (FNA-PTH) for preoperative localization of parathyroid lesions.

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kochman ◽  
Waldemar Misiorowski ◽  
Lucyna Papierska ◽  
Elzbieta Stachlewska-Nasfeter ◽  
Witold Chudzinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parathyroid Hormone ◽  
Preoperative Localization ◽  
Ultrasound Guided ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Fine Needle Aspirates ◽  
Parathyroid Lesions
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