Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in a Rural Family Practice

D. O'Mahony; I. Banach

doi:10.4102/safp.v45i5.1945

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Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in a Rural Family Practice

D. O'Mahony, I. Banach

About the author(s)

D. O'Mahony, Family Practitioner, Port St Johns, South Africa
I. Banach, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Transkei, South Africa

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Abstract

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) is a safe economic method of obtaining tissue from a suspicious mass for diagnostic purposes. This study describes the results of FNAB in a family practice in a poor rural community.

Keywords

Fine needle aspiration; biopsy; cytology; tumours; general practice

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