fine needle aspiration cytology versus fine needle capillary sampling in cytological diagnosis of thyroid lesions

Authors

pandey pinki

dixit alok

aggarwal ranjan

mahajan nanak chand

abstract

background and objectives: fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) is an established out- patient procedure used in primary diagnosis of palpable thyroid lesions. a modified technique fine needle capillary sampling (fncs) obviates the need of suction, is less painful, patient friendly and reported to overcome the problem of inadequate and bloody specimens. the aim of our study was to compare the efficacy and quality of fncs with that of conventional fnac in the lesions of thyroid. methods: one hundred patients, presenting between january 2011 to december 2012 at cytopathology department of m m institute of medical sciences and research, mullana, with diffuse and nodular thyroid lesions were enrolled with both the techniques being executed on the patients, beginning with fna followed by fncs. the smears were scored using five objective parameters i.e. background blood, cellular material, cellular degeneration, cellular trauma, and retention of appropriate architecture, in a single blind setting by a cyto-pathologist. the results were analyzed using student’s test for paired data and chi- square analysis. results: a highly significant differences (p

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Journal title:
iranian journal of pathology

Publisher: iranian society of pathology

ISSN 1735-5303

volume 10

issue 1 2014

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