Nondiagnostic Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Thyroid Gland

MacDonald, Laurie; Yazdi, Hossein M.

doi:10.1159/000333893

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“…[8][9][10][11] In our study, the accuracy of FNAC in diagnosing thyroid swelling is encouraging, the overall accuracy rate in our study is 77.78%,which is comparable to the findings in earlier studies, Jens Thomsen et al (1973) had 75% accuracy in their 17 aspirates from thyroid gland.…”

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Accuracy of FNAC in diagnosing thyroid swelling: a retrospective study

Shetty¹,

Sridhar

Gangadhar

2017

Int J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Background: Aim of the study was to determine the accuracy of FNAC in diagnosing thyroid swellings. Methods: A Retrospective study was conducted over a period of one year (September 2014 to September 2015), which included 54 patients, who presented with thyroid swelling to the ENT outpatient department.All the above patients were subjected to FNAC,and were operated for the swelling, their histopathological report were correlated with the pre-operative FNAC report to determine the accuracy of FNAC in correctly diagnosing the thyroid swelling. The data in this study was analysed using statistics analysis system (SAS) software. Results: Majority of the patients was in 3rd decade and females were more than males. The accuracy of FNAC in diagnosing thyroid swelling in the present study was found to be 77.78%. Conclusions: FNAC is a safe, quick and inexpensive technique in diagnosing thyroid swelling with high degree of accuracy.

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Accuracy of FNAC in diagnosing thyroid swelling: a retrospective study

Shetty¹,

Sridhar

Gangadhar

2017

Int J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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“…In our study inflammatory thyroid lesion 18 case which is similar to result of Farzana Shahid et al 14 8 cases and with Setal Chauhan et al 11 4 cases.FNAC is considered as the most effective and reliable procedure for the diagnosis of the thyroid nodules (Gharib 1994). The usefulness of FNAC has been questioned through many studies in cases of small, non palpable masses (less then 1.5 cm Khurana et al 1998 18 , MacDonald et al 1996 19 , McHenry et al 1993 20 , Schmidt et al 1997 21 ). These lesions, can be preferably aspirated under ultrasound, guided technique.…”

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Retrospective Study of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Head and Neck Lesion in Tertiary Care Hospital

Jasani¹,

Vaishnani²,

Vekaria

et al. 2013

Int J of Biomed & Adv Res

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Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is simple, quick, inexpensive and minimally invasive technique used to diagnose different types of swellings located in the head and neck region most commonly originating from cervical lymph node, thyroid, parotid and salivary glands. Aims: To assess the frequency of incidences of different sites, age groups, sex and distribution among inflammatory non neoplastic and neoplastic lesion. Material and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted between Jun 2011 to Jun 2012. Fine needle aspiration diagnosis was correlated with detail of relevant clinical data and investigations. Patients between the ages of 1 to 70 years were included in the study. A total of 450 patients with head and neck mass underwent FNAC. Results: Out of 450 fine needle aspiration procedures, 69% were of lymph node, 20% were thyroid, 06% from salivary gland, 06% from soft tissue and miscellaneous swellings. Conclusions: It is concluded that head and neck swellings are very common conditions in clinical practice. Our study found that FNAC is simple, quick, low cost and minimally invasive technique to diagnose different types of head and neck swellings. It could differentiate the infective process from neoplastic one and avoids unnecessary surgical intervention.

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“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Currently, US-FNA is the accepted method for the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules. [11][12][13][14][15] This approach, however, is limited by its invasiveness, cost, the possibility of inadequate sampling and/or indeterminate cytology, and operator dependency. [11][12][13][14][15][16] The development of accurate and reliable US-based criteria to predict malignancy would decrease the need for FNA.…”

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