Practical Diagnostic Approaches in Non-Gynaecologic Cytology

Dr Min En Nga (FRCPath; FRCPA; FIAC) is an alumnus of the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She was awarded fellowships by the Royal College of Pathologists, of both the United Kingdom and Australasia, as well as the International Academy of Cytology. She has been practicing anatomical pathology at the National University Hospital’s Department of Pathology since 2005, and was the Director of the cytology section and quality assurance program in cytology. She is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. She is currently a council member of the Singapore Society of Cytology and editor of its CytoPage newsletter. Dr Nga received the Singapore Society of Pathology’s Becton Dickinson Research Award in 2012, as well as numerous NUS teaching excellence awards, and was included in the NUS Teaching Excellence Honour Roll in 2016. In 2019, she was selected by the NUS as the recipient of the university’s Outstanding Educator Award. She is currently the supervisor of postgraduate cytology training in NUH and a frequent invited speaker at cytopathology workshops, including the Australian Society of Cytology Annual Scientific Meetings; International Academy of Pathology Cytology Companion Meetings. She also addressed the Indian Academy of Cytologists in November 2017.

Section I: Introduction to cytopathology.- Section II: General approaches to diagnostic cytology.- Diagnostic cytologic evaluation: where to start?.- Writing cytology reports: dos and don’ts.- On-site evaluation and reporting.- Section III: Effusion cytology.- General approach to effusion cytology.- Ancillary testing in effusion cytology.- Section IV: Aspiration cytology.- General approach to aspiration cytology.- Ancillary testing in aspiration cytology.- Approach to thyroid fine needle aspiration.- Approach to Lymph node fine needle aspiration.- Approach to Salivary gland fine needle aspiration.- Section V: Self-test cases.