OBJECTIVES To determine accuracy and intertest agreement of preoperative fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and intraoperative frozen-section analysis (FS) findings in thyroid surgery, and to assess the influence of intraoperative FS findings on decision making and the utility of FS in thyroid surgery. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. The results of preoperative FNAC, intraoperative FS, and...

This retrospective study aim at the correlation of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology(FNAC) of Breast lumps with Histopathology. 461 cases were compared and found a sensitivity of 97.49%, specificity 99.23%, Positive Predictive value of 98.98% and Negative Predictive value of 98.11%. FNAC results were very well correlated with histopathology and it can be combined with ancillary techniques to incr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in liver masses to isolate malignant from benign tumours and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from metastatic tumours. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Histopathology, Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar, from June 2004 to June 2005. METHODOLOGY All...

Material and Method: We analyzed records of all patients who underwent FNAC and thyroid surgeries between July 2006 and June 2010 at King Khalid Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Each diagnosis derived from FNAC of thyroid nodule reported by the Bethesda system was matched with the final histopathology result. Specificity, sensitivity, positive and negative predictive value,...

BACKGROUND/AIM Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the thyroid gland has been used as an initial investigative procedure of thyroid nodule(s) in the Department of Pathology at the Institute of Oncology of Vojvodina for more than 20 years. This procedure is rapid, inexpensive and technologically simple, yet it has found only limited, albeit increasing acceptance in medical practice in Serb...

CORRESPONDENCE Pathologists like a bit on the slide I read with interest the article on the role and histological classification of needle core biopsy (NCB) in conjunction with fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the preopera-tive assessment of impalpable breast lesions by Ibrahim et al. 1 The authors state that FNAC had an inadequacy rate of 58.7%, a complete sensitivity of 34.5%, and a ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (EUS-FNAC) is currently the most commonly used procedure for obtaining cytologic specimens of the pancreas. It is accurate, minimally invasive, safe and cost-effective. However, there is discrepancy between cytological and surgical diagnoses. This study was aimed at evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of EUS-FNAC of the panc...

Introduction: A palpable breast lump is a common clinical problem that needs thorough evaluation by clinical examination, FNAC, mammography and biopsy if required. Aim of the Study: To study the accuracy of fine needle aspirations in breast diseases and compare it with histopathology. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective study carried out in the department of Pathology, Shadan Institut...

BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been widely accepted as a safe method for diagnosis of salivary gland lesions and its accuracy is increased with increasing the experience of the physician. This study was conducted to examine the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FNAC of salivary gland lesions by cyto-histological correlation and to identify the discrepancies that co...

Background and Objectives: Thyroid gland because of its superficial location is amenable to direct physical examination. Clinical assessment of thyroid lesions by means of physical examination, thyroid scans and ultrasonography is not completely reliable. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is the most cost-effective, safe and an initial diagnostic test in the pre-operative evaluation of thy...