Trans-abdominal fine needle aspiration comparison with surgical biopsy

Sixty patients with various abdominal lesions had fine needle aspirations. There were 38 malignant, 19 benign, I suspicious, and 2 inadequate smears. Forty nine patients had subsequent tissue diagnosis. The sensitivity and specificity were 93.8% and 88.2%, respectively. The procedure is accurate and safe. In this study no complication was en countered

FNA of breast lesions-Comparison with open biopsy

Fine needle aspiration[FNA] cytology was performed on 199 patients with various breast lesions seen at the Medical City Teaching Hospital. The age ranged from 15 to 75 years with a mean age of 38.3 years. Fifty three [26.6%] patients had malignant tumours; 25 [12.6%] had atypical cytologic findings, 105[52.8%] had benign lesions, and 16 [8%] had inadequate cytologic material for diagnosis. The cytologic diagnosis was compared with the histologic diagnosis in 84 patients. The sensitivity of FNA of the breast in this study was 88.6%, specificity was 98%, and the overall accuracy was 94.5%. Thus FNA is a safe, accurate, simple, and reliable technique for the diagnosis of breast lesions