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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 83-89 |
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Role of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in adrenal lesions: analysis of 32 patients
Rakesh K Gupta1, Kaushik Majumdar1, Ravindra K Saran1, Siddharth Srivastava2, Puja Sakhuja1, Vineeta V Batra1
1 Department of Pathology, G B Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Gastroenterology, G B Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Ravindra K Saran
Department of Pathology, G B Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, New Delhi - 110 002
India
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DOI: 10.4103/JOC.JOC_241_16
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Objective: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (EUS-FNAC) is a precise and safe technique that provides both radiological and pathological diagnosis with a better diagnostic yield and minimal adverse events. EUS-FNAC led to the remarkable increase in the detection rate of incidentaloma found during radiologic staging or follow-up in various malignancy or unrelated conditions. Aims: We did this preliminary study with an aim to evaluate the role of EUS-FNA in diagnosing and classifying adrenal lesions, clinical impact, and compare the outcome with the previously published literature. Materials and Methods: We included 32 consecutive cases (both retrospective and prospective) of EUS-guided adrenal aspirate performed over a period of 3.3 years. The indications for the aspirate in decreasing order were metastasis (most common carcinoma gall bladder) > primary adrenal mass > disseminated tuberculosis > pyrexia of unknown origin. On EUS, 28 cases revealed space occupying lesion or mass (two cases bilateral) and four cases revealed diffuse enlargement (two cases bilateral) with a mean size of 21 mm. Results: The cytology reports were benign adrenal aspirate (43.8%), metastatic adenocarcinoma (15.6%), histoplasmosis (9.4%), tuberculosis (9.4%), round cell tumor (6.2%), adrenocortical carcinoma (3.1%), and descriptive (3.1%). Three cases (9.4%) yielded inadequate sample. The TNM staging was altered in 22.23% of the cases by result of adrenal aspirate. Conclusions: EUS-FNA of the adrenal gland is a safe, quick, and sensitive and real-time diagnostic technique, which requires an integrated approach of clinician, endoscopist, and cytopathologist for high precision in diagnosis. Although the role of EUS-FNA for right adrenal is not much described, we found adequate sample yield in all the four patients that underwent the procedure.
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