Clinical presentation A 23 year old woman presented to her General Practitioner for a follow up smear. Eversion was seen at the posterior lip. Her previous smear was reported as possible high grade and the target punch biopsy showed low grade intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) with human papillomavirus (HPV). Cytological and Histological findings, and … [Read more...]

Introduction Fine needle biopsy (FNB) was introduced in the early 1930s by Stewart1, Martin and Ellis2 and since then has become widely accepted and recognised as a rapid, safe, cheap and reliable method. In the field of dermatology, cytology had already been in use since 1927 by Dudgeon and Patrick for diagnosing BCCs4. It gained more attention … [Read more...]