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A 32-year old asked:

What to do if I had a mammo ultrasound fine needle aperation now they want me to have a ultrasound guided biopsy I'm scre?

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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 36-year old female asked about a 61-year old female:

What are the most common risks of having an ultrasound guided aspiration for a left, back knee ganglion cyst? Was told the recurrence rate is 50%. Is there anything I can do to also lower this rate?

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A 42-year old asked:

Does a fine needle aspiration biopsy hurt much?

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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 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 29-year old asked:

What to expect when going for a fine needle aspiration biopsy of the breast?

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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 32-year old male asked:

What are the side-effects 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 32-year old male asked:

What is Fine needle aspiration good for?

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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 26-year old asked:

Do all thyroid nodules require a fine needle aspiration biopsy?

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A 32-year old male asked:

What are the benefits of Fine needle aspiration?

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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 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 25-year old female asked:

Is this bad? In the left breast at 12:00 6 cm from the nipple, there is a parallel, hypochoic, oval mass measuring 0.9 x 0.2 1.0 cm. This is suspicious&ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy is recommended.IMPRESSION: SUSPICIOUS - BIRAD 4?

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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 41-year old female asked:

I am getting an ultra-sound guided aspiration and injection of two painful ganglion cysts in my knee (one is over 3cm). What is recovery like?

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A 36-year old female asked:

Abnormal cells found in breast cyst on cytology. Cannot be seen on ultrasound due to aspiration so cannot do biopsy. Would MRI help?

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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 26-year old male asked:

Can all fibroadenomas (detected w/ultrasound) be confirmed w/needle biopsy, or do some need to be removed completely for biopsy if it's too small?

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