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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">136</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EVALUATION OF LIVER SPACE OCCUPYING LESIONS BY FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Dalsaniya</surname><given-names>Sameer B.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shah</surname><given-names>Majal G.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Patel</surname><given-names>Trupti S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gandhi</surname><given-names>Jahnavi S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jetly</surname><given-names>Dhaval H.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Trivedi</surname><given-names>Priti P.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>13</fpage><lpage>18</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objective: To evaluate the different liver space occupying lesions diagnosed on FNAC presenting at our hospital and share our experience of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of liver lesions.&#13;
Material and Method: Retrospective study of total of 400 cases of liver space occupying lesions was done at Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, Ahmedabad during 6 months period (January 2015 to June 2015). Papanicolau (PAP) and May-Grunwald-Giemsa (MGG) stained smears were reviewed and analyzed. Inconclusive aspirations and inadequate aspirations were excluded from study.&#13;
Results: 294 cases out of 400 cases - where FNA yielded adequate cellularity were analyzed. Age ranged from 1 to 80 years with male predominance. Out of 294 cases, 292 cases (99.32%) were diagnosed as neoplastic and 2 cases (0.68%) as non neoplastic lesions. Of total 292 cases, 66 cases (22.44%) were diagnosed as primary hepatic malignancies in which 7 cases (2.37%) were of Hepatoblastoma and 59 cases (20.07%) of Hepatocellular carcinoma. Metastatic tumor was the most common and constituted 226 cases (76.88%). Metastatic lesions were Adenocarcinoma (62.93%), Small cell carcinoma (7.15%), Squamous cell carcinoma (1.36%), Malignant Melanoma (1.36%), Neuroendocrine tumor (1.70%) and Medullary carcinoma (0.34%) in decreasing order of frequency. The two non neoplastic lesions were of Abscess formation (0.68%).&#13;
Conclusion: Cytology is a first line of investigation in liver space occupying lesions as the procedure is minimally invasive, safe, simple, quick and cost effective.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology</kwd><kwd> Liver SOL</kwd><kwd> Ultrasonography</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
