Diagnosis can generally be sufficiently made on the basis of history, signalment, and fine - needle
aspiration cytology.
It is a cancer that is very difficult to diagnose using fine needle
aspiration cytology.
Confirmatory diagnosis can easily be established by
aspiration cytology or by biopsy of the tissue involved.
Diagnosis is based on tests including using fine needle
aspiration cytology to take a sample, ultrasound, CT imaging or examination of a biopsy.
It's important to classify a patient with lymphoma classified into T or B cell, which can be done easily by a fine needle
aspiration cytology flow cytometry at Colorado.
Aspiration cytology is minimally invasive, but may miss a diagnosis of lymph node metastasis in a concerning number of patients — early literature suggests metastatic disease may be missed by lymph node aspiration in up to 40 % of patients!
The concern is that not only does
aspiration cytology only sample a very small amount of a given lymph node, but that it is difficult to ensure that we have correctly predicted the optimal lymph node to sample for any given mast cell tumor.
This microscopic photo shows tumor cells from a fine needle
aspiration cytology smear of a liver mass.
Not exact matches
Cytology is the microscopic examination of cell samples obtained by needle
aspiration.
A tentative diagnosis is usually initially made with fine needle
aspiration and
cytology.
Cytology is the microscopic examination of cell samples obtained by
aspiration techniques.
Examples of
cytology tests are Blood Smears, Ear Swabs,
Aspirations (removing cells from the body with a needle) or a Urine Sediment.
However, some of the more mass - like lesions may be diagnosed following fine needle
aspiration and
cytology, where a sample of cells is evaluated.
Needle
aspiration for microscopic examination of the cell sample (
cytology) is not diagnostic.
In male dogs a routine workup for prostatic disease should be performed including
cytology and culture of a prostatic wash or ejaculate, ultrasonic examination and possibly prostatic
aspiration or biopsy.