A comparative study of fine needle aspiration cytology versus non-aspiration technique in thyroid lesions

Role of Fine Needle Aspiration Versus Non-Aspiration Cytology In Diagnosis of Thyroid Lesions

“…The authors also found that FNNAC performed far better than FNAC for malignant lesions i.e., yielded adequate material with less contamination of blood, which is similar to findings of the present study. They also observed that mean scores for degree of cellular degeneration and trauma were more for FNNAC as compared to FNAC, which is in agreement with our study.Findings similar with our study were also reported by Mahajan and Sharma (13), Rizvi et al (16), and Maurya et al (17).…”

Vanishing tumors of thyroid: histological variations after fine needle aspiration

“…Therefore, efforts must be made to minimize the occurrence of histological alterations following FNA. It may be of importance to utilize the French (capillary) technique in thyroid FNA rather than the more traumatic negative pressure aspiration technique (31,32).…”

Role of Cytology in Thyroid Lesions: A Comparative study of Fine Needle Aspiration and Non Aspiration Techniques

“…They compared Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology with Non-aspiration technique in thyroid lesions during the year of 2005. [12] The present study, categorized the lesions into benign, suspicious for malignancy and malignant by FNAC and FNNAC to access their prevalence. By FNAC, out of 114 adequate smears, 102 (89.47%) were benign, 4 (3.50%) were suspicious for malignancy depending on cytomorphological appearance (follicular neoplasm suggesting both benign and malignant features) and 8 (7.01%) were malignant.…”

“…Gagnetan CB et al in 1987, Rizvi SAA et al in 2005 and Madrekar SRS et al in 1995 also found almost similar prevalence of thyroid lesions in their respective studies. [8,12,13] The cytological correlation is brought about by combination of the technique of FNAC and FNNAC with histopathological diagnoses of thyroid lesions. The cytodiagnoses obtained at application of FNAC and FNNAC did not differ in both the groups of benign and malignant cytodiagnoses.…”