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Fine needle aspiration
Fine needle aspiration is when a doctor inserts a small needle into a part of the body to withdraw cells or fluid. This is typically done to capture a tissue sample to send to a lab for analysis.
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What are the benefits of Fine needle aspiration?
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Does a fine needle aspiration biopsy hurt much?
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What are the side-effects of Fine needle aspiration?
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What is Fine needle aspiration good for?
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A 42-year old asked:
How long does it take to recover from a fine needle aspiration?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: fine needle aspiration?
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A 34-year old asked:
What is testicular fine needle aspiration cytology?
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A 47-year old asked:
Fine needle aspiration biopsy. Do I need to repot as an operation or surgery?
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A 39-year old asked:
I was wondering if a core biopsy was done rather than a fine needle aspiration because it's solid?
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A 50-year old female asked:
Is fine needle aspiration on thyroid complex nodules 100% safe?
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A 29-year old asked:
What to expect when going for a fine needle aspiration biopsy of the breast?
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A 47-year old asked:
Fine needle aspiration of the thyroid that goes into my arm, but it's kind of weird getting one in your neck. Does this hurt?
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A 20-year old female asked:
If there's multiple lumps of fibroadenoma in my bilateral breasts, there will be multiple fine needle aspirations? Or just one. What else needed?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: ct-guided fine needle aspiration?
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A 26-year old asked:
Do all thyroid nodules require a fine needle aspiration biopsy?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Is a pathology report from a fine needle aspiration diagnosis: suspicious for non hodgkin's lymphoma. favorable, follicular lymphoma, give enough in?
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A 37-year old female asked:
Is it true that a fine needle aspiration of a thyroid nodule can lead to metastasis if it is cancerous?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I did fine needle aspiration for cyst in left breast & was fibrocystic changes but after two months the area around this cyst i feel it solid. Why?
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A 58-year old female asked:
I have a 1.6 cm x 1.1 cm x 1.7 cm midpole predominantly hyperechoic thyroid nodule. Suggests a fine needle aspiration. Findings suggest a diffuse thyroiditis. Do I need a fine needle aspiration? And what is a diffuse thyroiditis?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Please translate? Can have squamous cells yet not cancer? Thanks! CYTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS: Peritoneal cyst, fine needle aspiration, ThinPrep - cell block slides: Low cellularity specimen with few squamous cells and acellular debris. No evident malignancy?
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A 25-year old female asked about a 52-year old female:
Hard lump found near thyriod area . Ent doctor did a fine needle aspiration (fna) and she said everything's fine. How accurate would fna be? Thanks.
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A 64-year old female asked:
Questioning need for surgery on lump in right thyroid that, after a fine needle aspiration, had the diagnosis of atypia of undetermined significance. Pathologists comments were: "Features suggestive of a Hurthle cell lesion with degenerative changes?
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A 41-year old female asked:
I had a fine needle aspiration on left breast and now can feel a tiny lump in armpit, could fna cause swollen glands?
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A 32-year old asked:
Bad cells from needle aspiration on node means what?
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A 31-year old asked:
Is a needle aspiration of a Bartholin's cyst painful?
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A 40-year old asked:
Could you get a false positive of cancer from a needle aspiration?
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A 45-year old asked:
Can you explain if it's possible to get a false positive of cancer from a needle aspiration?
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A 41-year old female asked:
I had a needle aspiration on my breast yesterday, i'm worried because it wasn't a cyst, what could it be?
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A 48-year old male asked:
I been doing self aspiration of my hydrocel for 2 years now. atlease once a month. what is the best size needle to use? the needle im using is very small with a 2oz tube and I normally drain 6ozs each time but very slowly each time.?
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A 45-year old asked:
What's the origin of the name jamshidi (the bone marrow aspiration needle)?
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