Fine‐Needle aspiration biopsy revisited.

Abstract

Between November 1972 and December 1981, 1303 fine needle aspiration biopsies were performed on patients with head and neck masses at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. The results of 649 lymph node, 227 salivary gland, 286 thyroid, and 41 miscellaneous aspiration biopsies are reviewed. No radical treatment resulted from false positive diagnoses and no patient delay in treatment occurred because of false negative results. Techniques for performing the procedure are briefly reviewed. Cost containment is stressed, particularly the savings that occur when the diagnosis is not neoplastic. Future developments and uses of the procedure are discussed.

FNAC and histopathological correlation of salivary gland lesions: an observational study

“…The adequacy of materials obtained by FNAC in the present study was as high as 100% which is quite comparable to the various studies performed in the past [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] smears showed moderate to hyper cellularity in 92 % cases except for four cases which were cystic lesions. 6,8 A repeat FNAC must be considered from these cystic lesions once adequately aspirated in the first instance provided sialolipohemangioma or any such vascular lesions has been excluded.…”

“…[14][15][16] Most of the series results were consistent with this study in terms of the site predilection except for Frable et al and Lingen which had demonstrated lesions in the sublingual glands also. 12,17 The cytological diagnosis with definitive histopathological correlation were available in 39 cases, however, the cytological diagnosis alone for all the 50 cases had a high specificity and sensitivity in the present series. One case each of sialolipoma and sialolipohemangioma described in the others category (Table 3) could not be definitively diagnosed on FNAC due to presence of nonspecific abundant fat cells along with blood elements and unremarkable salivary gland acini.…”

Punção aspirativa por agulha fina em tumores cervicais

“…Entretanto, sua prática foi pouco utilizada até as décadas de 40 e 50, especialmente pelos altos índices de complicações descritas, relacionadas ao diâmetro exagerado das agulhas utilizadas na época 1 . A partir de 1950, após ser descrita por um grupo escandinavo, a técnica, hoje considerada clássica, passou a ser mundialmente adotada para investigação de lesões expansivas cervicais 3,12 .…”

“…A partir de então vários autores publicaram métodos diferenciados de punções por agulha de tumorações em diversos locais do organismo 2 . Entretanto, a técnica que conhecemos hoje por punção aspirativa por agulha fina (PAAF) foi detalhadamente descrita e popularizada somente na década de 50 na Escandinávia 1,3 .…”

“…Material e método: Foi realizado um estudo retrospectivo dos pacientes que foram submetidos a PAAF no SORL do HCPA entre julho de 1998 e dezembro de 1999. Foram excluídos pacientes 1 submetidos à PAAF de tireóide 2 com dados incompletos 3 que perderam acompanhamento 4 que não tinham diagnóstico definitivo da lesão. Os resultados das PAAF foram comparados com o diagnóstico definitivo, sendo este estabelecido por exame anatomopatológico (grupo I) ou por evolução clínica e/ou outros exames (grupo II).…”