Role of fine needle aspiration cytology in bone lesions

Abstract

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background: </strong>FNAC is considered an important procedure in the diagnosis of bone tumors because of its high accuracy. In our study FNA was performed in patients to study the role of FNAC in the diagnosis of bone tumors and to evaluate its usefulness as a diagnostic modality<span lang="EN-IN">.</span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods: </strong>Fine needle aspiration was performed on 54 patients whose age ranged between 5 – 75 years with a male to female ratio 1.84 :1 presented with various bone lesions. The bone lesions included 42 (78%) primary lesions, 5 (9.3%) metastatic deposits and 7 (12. 7%) malignancy of related structures involving the bone.<strong></strong></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results: </strong>47 biopsy specimens were available for cytohistological correlation and cytological findings of 45 cases correlated with histopathology. The overall diagnostic accuracy was 95.92%, with 100% sensitivity and specificity. The predictive values of positive as well as negative test were 100%<span lang="EN-IN">.</span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Thus FNA was found to be a safe and an extremely useful, rapid method in the preliminary diagnosis of bone lesions<span lang="EN-IN">.</span></p>

A Correlative Study of Fnac and Radiological Imaging of Bony Lesion In the Tertiary Health Centre Rims, Ranchi, Jharkhand: A Prospective Study

“…Accuracy of FNAC to diagnose true benign and malignant neoplastic lesion was found to be 84%. sensitivity and positive predictive value found to be 80% and 86.9% respectively which are (10) more than the study done by Ramana S.V et al , but lesser (9) than other studies like Obiageli E Nnodu O E et al and Jain (11) Vet al .…”