Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis

Background: To evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAc) as a diagnostic tool in investigation of thyroid swelling and to correlate cytological findings with histopathology. Methods: In this descriptive study, ninety patients of all age groups and both sexes who underwent FNAc, fo...

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Main Author: Saleha Masood
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Language:English
Published: Rawalpindi Medical University 2014-12-01
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spelling doaj-057d870b07994449a5edca1f136593322020-11-25T03:56:57ZengRawalpindi Medical UniversityJournal of Rawalpindi Medical College1683-35621683-35702014-12-01182Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological DiagnosisSaleha Masood0Department of Pathology, Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi Background: To evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAc) as a diagnostic tool in investigation of thyroid swelling and to correlate cytological findings with histopathology. Methods: In this descriptive study, ninety patients of all age groups and both sexes who underwent FNAc, for thyroid nodules, were included. Out of 90 patients, histopathological diagnosis was available for 60 patients. FNAC slides were stained with Wright and Papanicolaou (PAP) stains and histopathology slides were stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin . Pre-operative FNAc results were compared with final histological diagnosis in 60 patients. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) of FNAC for detection of malignant lesions was calculated. Results: Majority (80%) were females. FNAc results revealed 85.55% as non neoplastic.The commonest lesions in thyroid gland was goiter. Among the malignant neoplasms, the commonest lesion was papillary carcinoma. Anaplastic carcinoma was detected in one case.Out of 60 patients,with available histopathological diagnosis, 21 were labelled as neoplastic on FNAC. On histopathological examination, 3 out of 21 were labelled as non-neoplastic and the remaining 18 were diagnosed to be neoplastic. On FNAc 39 out of 60 patients were labelled as non-neoplastic.On histopathological examination, 3 out of 39 were labeled as neoplastic and the remaining 36 were diagnosed to be non neoplastic.The accuracy of histodiagnosis was 90% with a sensitivity of 85.7%, specificity of 92.3%, false negative rate of 14.28% and false positive rate of 7.69% .Significant agreement was observed between FNAC and histopathology results as indicated by kappa (0.69) and p value (0.001). Conclusion: FNAc of thyroid lesions is simple, easy to perform, cost effective and easily repeated procedure. It is recommended as first line method for investigating the nature of lesion. https://www.journalrmc.com/index.php/JRMC/article/view/351Fine needle aspirationThyroid neoplasm.
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Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College
Fine needle aspiration
Thyroid neoplasm.
author_facet Saleha Masood
author_sort Saleha Masood
title Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis
title_short Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis
title_full Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis
title_fullStr Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and its Correlation with Histological Diagnosis
title_sort fine needle aspiration cytology for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules and its correlation with histological diagnosis
publisher Rawalpindi Medical University
series Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College
issn 1683-3562
1683-3570
publishDate 2014-12-01
description Background: To evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAc) as a diagnostic tool in investigation of thyroid swelling and to correlate cytological findings with histopathology. Methods: In this descriptive study, ninety patients of all age groups and both sexes who underwent FNAc, for thyroid nodules, were included. Out of 90 patients, histopathological diagnosis was available for 60 patients. FNAC slides were stained with Wright and Papanicolaou (PAP) stains and histopathology slides were stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin . Pre-operative FNAc results were compared with final histological diagnosis in 60 patients. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) of FNAC for detection of malignant lesions was calculated. Results: Majority (80%) were females. FNAc results revealed 85.55% as non neoplastic.The commonest lesions in thyroid gland was goiter. Among the malignant neoplasms, the commonest lesion was papillary carcinoma. Anaplastic carcinoma was detected in one case.Out of 60 patients,with available histopathological diagnosis, 21 were labelled as neoplastic on FNAC. On histopathological examination, 3 out of 21 were labelled as non-neoplastic and the remaining 18 were diagnosed to be neoplastic. On FNAc 39 out of 60 patients were labelled as non-neoplastic.On histopathological examination, 3 out of 39 were labeled as neoplastic and the remaining 36 were diagnosed to be non neoplastic.The accuracy of histodiagnosis was 90% with a sensitivity of 85.7%, specificity of 92.3%, false negative rate of 14.28% and false positive rate of 7.69% .Significant agreement was observed between FNAC and histopathology results as indicated by kappa (0.69) and p value (0.001). Conclusion: FNAc of thyroid lesions is simple, easy to perform, cost effective and easily repeated procedure. It is recommended as first line method for investigating the nature of lesion.
topic Fine needle aspiration
Thyroid neoplasm.
url https://www.journalrmc.com/index.php/JRMC/article/view/351
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