Korean J Cytopathol.  1990 Jun;1(1):43-50.

Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of the Mediastinal Lesions

• Park IA
• Ham EK

Abstract

The authors report 16 cases of mediastinal fine-needle aspiration cytology from Jan. 1985 to Mar. 1988 at the Seoul National University Hospital. Among them, diagnostic materal were obtained in fifteen cases, establishing the diagnosis of 7 thymomas, 2 germinomas, 2 neurogenic tumosr, 1 lymphoma, and 3 meastatic carcinomas. The 9 cytologic diagnoses could be confirmed by histologic examination in 8 patients and by another cytologic method in one patient, allowing concordance rate of 77%.

Keyword

Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Cytology; Mediastinum

MeSH Terms

Biopsy, Fine-Needle*
Diagnosis
Germinoma
Humans
Lymphoma
Mediastinum
Seoul
Thymoma