BACKGROUND This study evaluated the accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in cases of follicular neoplasm (FN) on the basis of histologic diagnosis, and reviewed the cytologic findings of FN according to the FNAC. METHODS Among the 66 cases diagnosed with thyroid FN by FNAC during the 7-year period from 2003 to 2009, 36 cases that had undergone thyroid surgery were available for ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a globally accepted technique in the preoperative evaluations of head and neck tumours; however, the effectiveness in the interpretation of salivary glands neoplastic lesions is still controversial. The objective of this study consisted of assessing the efficacy of FNAC in preoperative diagnosis of parotid tumours. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Thyroid enlargement is one of the common problems in patients presenting at outpatients department of ENT particularly in females. Thyroid nodules are common, thyroid cancer is uncommon and the most common way for it to present is as a solitary thyroid nodule. This study was conducted to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in thyroid dis...

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...

Background: Thyroiditis is the inflammation of the thyroid gland. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in those areas of the world where iodine levels are sufficient. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a synonym of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis, is the second most common thyroid lesion diagnosed on FNAC after goiter. FNAC plays a significant ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the outcome of patients who underwent transoral tumor excision and a wait-and-see policy for the NO neck, using ultrasonographic-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (US-FNAC) of the neck for both selecting patients for neck treatment or observation and for follow-up. DESIGN Retrospective outcome analysis of a patient cohort without palpable or US-FNAC detectable nodal m...

To evaluate the accuracy and efficacy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of Thyroid gland enlargements. A retrospective analysis was done at Department of Pathology, Government Medical College and General Hospital, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. One hundred and fifty cases were included in this study. However in 10 cases aspirate was unsatisfactory and in 20 cases sur...

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 fal...

To the Editor—We congratulate Cheung et al1 for providing local data on the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of non-toxic thyroid nodules. In 2003, we retrospectively analysed the results of 192 FNAC of thyroid nodules performed in Queen Elizabeth Hospital between January and June 2001. Forty-three of those patients underwent thyroidectomy and a comparison of the histopatholog...

Diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies on fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) often show considerable variability in diagnostic accuracy between study centers. Many factors affect the accuracy of FNAC. A complete description of the testing parameters would help make valid comparisons between studies and determine causes of performance variation. We investigated the manner in which test condi...