Diagnostic Concordance between Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology and Surgical Biopsy of Thyroid Nodules: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study from a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Authors

  • Mohammed Alswayyed

Keywords:

fine needle aspiration cytology, histopathology, sensitivity, negative predictive value, positive predictive value

Abstract

Objective To assess the diagnostic performance and yield of fine needle aspiration cytology FNAC of thyroid nodules Design Retrospective study Setting Archives of the Pathology Department at King Saud University Medical City Saudi Arabia between January 2016 and May 2021 Subjects Overall 3867 FNAC results from 2442 patients with thyroid nodules with available histopathological follow-up material were included in this study Intervention Comparison of the FNAC diagnostic performance with the final histopathological diagnoses

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Mohammed Alswayyed. (2023). Diagnostic Concordance between Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology and Surgical Biopsy of Thyroid Nodules: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study from a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Global Journal of Medical Research, 23(C2), 1–5. Retrieved from https://medicalresearchjournal.org/index.php/GJMR/article/view/102368

 
Diagnostic Concordance between Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology and Surgical Biopsy of Thyroid Nodules: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study from a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Published

2023-06-06

Issue

Vol. 23 No. C2 (2023): GJMR-C Microbiology & Pathology: Volume 23 Issue C2

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