Combined 99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile scintigraphy and fine-needle aspiration cytology offers an accurate and potentially cost-effective investigative strategy for the assessment of solitary or dominant thyroid nodules: reply to comments by Riazi et al.

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Wale ◽  
Sabina Dizdarevic
Keyword(s):  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Thyroid Nodules ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology

scholarly journals Correlation of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology with Histopathology in the Diagnosis of Solitary Thyroid Nodule

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Gupta ◽  
Savita Gupta ◽  
Ved Bhushan Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Nodule ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Thyroid Nodules ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Solitary Thyroid Nodule ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology

Background. Fine needle aspiration cytology is considered the gold standard diagnostic test for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Fine needle aspiration cytology is a cost effective procedure that provides specific diagnosis rapidly with minimal complications. Based on the cytology findings, patients can be followed in cases of benign diagnosis and subjected to surgery in cases of malignant diagnosis thereby decreasing the rate of unnecessary surgery. Purpose of the present study was to correlate the fine needle aspiration cytology findings with histopathology of excised specimens.Material and Methods. This was a prospective study conducted on 75 consecutive patients between January 2003 and December 2005. All patients with clinically diagnosed solitary thyroid nodule who were clinically and biochemically euthyroid were included for study. Patients with multinodular goitre and who were hypothyroid or hyperthyroid were excluded from the study.Results. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, false positive rate, false negative rate, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of FNAC for the diagnosis of neoplastic solitary thyroid nodules were 80%, 86.6%, 13.3%, 20%, 80%, and 86.6%, respectively. Commonest malignancy detected was papillary carcinoma in 12 patients.Conclusions. Fine needle aspiration cytology is a simple, easy to perform, cost effective, and easily repeated procedure for the diagnosis of thyroid cancer. It is recommended as the first line investigation for the diagnosis of solitary thyroid nodule.

scholarly journals Is it possible to eliminate the number of inappropriate thyroid surgeries combining scintigraphy and cytology?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 01-03
Author(s):  
Smaroula Divani
Keyword(s):  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Thyroid Nodules ◽  
Follicular Carcinoma ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Indeterminate Cytology

Objective: Although fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is the most reliable, safe and accurate method for the clinical management of abnormal thyroid nodules, 5%-15% of cases lead to indeterminate diagnoses and surgery is the recommended practice for them as they may be malignant. Nevertheless, the majority of cases with indeterminate cytology are benign, so the risk of unnecessary surgery is significant. In our study we combined FNAC and scintigraphy in order to reduce the number of inappropriate surgeries. Subjects and Methods: From 219 patients with thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology 33(9 males and 24 females) aged 18-73 years, had indeterminate FNAC diagnoses and were referred for scintigraphy. Surgery was performed in all cases. The results of FNAC, scintigraphy and histology were collected and compared. Results: From 33 cases with indeterminate cytology 32 had a benign histological diagnosis and only one was malignant (follicular Ca). That case had a positive scan. All cases with negative thyroid scans (29/33) were benign. False positive scans were 3, whereas one scan was true positive with final diagnosis follicular carcinoma. Conclusion: This study showed that combining the FNAC with the thyroid scintigraphy in cases of thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology it is possible to reduce the number of inappropriate surgeries from 32 to 3.

Utility of intraoperative frozen sections for thyroid nodules with prior fine needle aspiration cytology diagnosis

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 789-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudarshana Roychoudhury ◽  
Fabiola Souza ◽  
Cecilia Gimenez ◽  
Ryan Glass ◽  
Rubina Cocker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Thyroid Nodules ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology

Value of Clinical Examination, Scintigraphy and Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Diagnosis of Solitary Thyroid Nodules

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
Adel Zaki Al-Taweel ◽  
Hussein Dashti ◽  
Abdulla Behbehani ◽  
W. Olszewski ◽  
Shafik O. Atia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration ◽  
Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Thyroid Nodules ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology
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