Correlation of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology with Histopathology in the Diagnosis of Thyroid Swellings
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Introduction
Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is now being accepted as the most cost-effective, minimally invasive technique with very low incidence of complications in the diagnosis of most of the thyroid lesions with an added advantage of segregating the patients of solitary thyroid nodule (STN) into operative and non-operative groups.
Materials and Method
A prospective longitudinal study was undertaken over a period of one year (2015) at the out-patient department of a medical college hospital in Tamil Nadu to determine the accuracy of FNAC in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value in comparison with histopathology in the diagnosis of a thyroid swelling. Patients with solitary thyroid nodule, in euthyroid state without serious medical disorders were included in our study. FNAC was performed with 23G needle, smears were fixed with ether-95% alcohol solution, and staining was performed using Papanicolaou’s stain. The thyroid specimen which was excised during the thyroidectomy procedure was processed in automated tissue processing units and sent for histopathological examination.
Results
The validity of FNAC in terms of sensitivity and specificity was assessed by comparing it with the histopathological examination. The sensitivity of FNAC in detecting all the benign and malignant type of thyroid lesions was found to be in the range of 80-100%, whereas the specificity and the positive predictive value was almost 100% and the negative predictive value was between 98-100%, for all the lesions detected by FNAC. The accuracy of detection of lesions through FNAC is almost 94%.
Conclusion
The use of FNAC has reduced the number of patients with solitary thyroid nodules undergoing unnecessary surgery and has led to proper planning of surgery in malignant cases.
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