Strigle SM, Rarick MU, Cosgrove MM, Martin SE. A review of the fine-needle aspiration cytology findings in human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Diagn Cytopathol 1992;
8:41-52. [PMID:
1551365 DOI:
10.1002/dc.2840080109]
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Abstract
Patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are subject to infections and neoplasms, which frequently result in palpable or radiologically identified masses. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) offers a rapid, simple, and cost effective approach for diagnosis of these masses. During a 2-yr period, 396 aspirates were performed on 362 HIV-infected patients within the LAC-USC Medical Center. Adequate material was obtained from 84% of the FNA, allowing the etiology of the mass to be determined in 90% of the cases by means of a combination of cytologic, microbiologic, and immunocytochemical procedures. Significant pathologic processes identified in these patients by means of FNA included reactive lymphoid proliferations (35%), abnormal lymphoid proliferations (12%), infections (12.5%), cystic (5.5%) and inflammatory processes (5%), nonlymphoid malignancies (4%), and salivary gland pathology (1%). We conclude that FNA is an appropriate initial diagnostic procedure in HIV positive patients presenting with mass lesions.
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