A Study of Thyroid Swellings and Correlation between FNAC and Histopathology Results

Thyroid swellings are frequent cause for anxiety in patients as well as clinicians and proper accurate diagnosis is essential for their management. They cause cosmetic deformity, pressure symptoms related to trachea, esophagus and blood vessels. Fine needle aspiration is a popular, safe, accurate diagnostic method accepted worldwide for diagnosing thyroid swellings. It's limitations include false negative results and rarely false positive results. In a study of Thyroid swellings by Bloch, comparing FNAC and Histopathology results, the accuracy of FNAC was found to be 91.6% Bloch (1997). In a similar study by Mundasad et al., (2006) the sensitivity of FNAC was found to be (52.6%) and specificity (82.2%) and accuracy (79.1%) for thyroid malignancies. In a study by Handa et al., (2008) on thyroid swellings, the sensitivity and specificity of FNAC was 97% and 100% respectively. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 4 (2017) pp. 265-269 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com