Transthoracic fine-needle aspiration biopsy cytology of pulmonary neoplasms

✍ Scribed by Dr. Malcolm M. M. Hayes; Dong Yue Zhang; William Brown

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 556 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-1039
• DOI: 10.1002/dc.2840100405

✦ Synopsis

The experience with 212 transthoracic fine-needle aspiration biopsy cytology specimens of mass lesions of the lung at a small Canadian hospital is reviewed. The technique showed a sensitivity of 78.0%, a specificity of 85.7%, a positive predictive value of

98. 5%. and a negativepredictive value of 25.0% when the cytological diagnoses were compared with the final clinicopathological diagnoses listed in the patients' charts. There was only one false positive diagnosis of malignancy. Diagnoses based on cytology of the aspirates were compared with histological diagnoses in 127 cases and the accuracy of tvpng of the majorgroups of carcinoma was assessed. Distinction between small-cell carcinoma and nonsmall-cell carcinoma was usually accurate and fairly good correlation

was achieved for all major types of carcinoma. The results for typing of the neoplasm are not as goad as those from larger centres in the world. The technique is considered to be useful even in the setting of a small hospital. Diagn Cytopathol 1994;lO:

315-319.