Aspiration puncture biopsy in the preoperative diagnosis of adrenal tumors
Smol'ianinova, N.V.; Bogin, I.N.; Bondarenko, V.O.; Manevich, V.L.; Charnyĭ, A.M.
Khirurgiia 5: 94-97
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207 PMID: 2544768 Document Number: 336038
The results of fine-needle aspiration puncture (AP) and cytologic examination in the preoperative period in 4 patients with various lesions of the adrenals are discussed. AP was conducted under local anesthesia and control by ultrasonic examination; no complications occurred. Analysis of the cytologic findings allowed preoperative morphological verification of the process, as a result of which the initial clinical diagnosis was changed in 2 of the 4 cases. With an exactly established preoperative cytologic diagnosis a rational therapeutic tactics can be chosen, and the necessity of using complicated examination methods, diagnostic laparotomy among others, obviated.