Title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology and Fine Needle Sampling without Aspiration in Patients, Attending In Tertiary Care Hospital, at Bettiah, West Champaran, Bihar
Authors: Dr Sudhendra Nath Sinha, Dr A. Rai, Dr U.S.Pandey
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i2.168
Abstract
Objective: The present study was conducted to compare the Diagnostic adequacy and accuracy of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) and Fine Needle Sampling (FNS) without aspiration.
Materials and Methods: A total of 86 patients (32 male and 54 female) between the ages of 6 years to 65 years were studied.
Results: out of total 86 cases sampled, FNAC could give a diagnosis in 67 cases (79%) whereas FNS could do so in 65 cases (75.6%).
Conclusion: FNS scored over FNAC in the total scores of all the cases and in the average score per cases and the difference was statistically significant. However for individual group of lesion the scores were not significantly different between the two techniques. After confirmation by histopathology the overall diagnostic accuracy by FNS was 75.6% and that by FNAC 79%.
Keywords: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) Fine Needle Sampling without Aspiration (FNS), Smear, Breast lesion, Hemorrhage, Hematoma.
