Pedro CARDOSO, Joao ROSA, Joao ESTEVES, Vania OLİVEİRA, Ricardo RODRİGUES-PİNTO

Fine needle aspiration for the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskleletal tumours

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of FNA and analyse its efŞcacy inenabling the initiation of treatment in musculoskeletal tumours.Methods: A total of 130 FNA were performed (94 bone and 36 soft tissue lesions) guided by CT scan(n¼ 64), ultrasonography (n ¼ 36) and radioscopy (n ¼ 30). Diagnostic yield and accuracy were evaluated. A diagnosis was considered accurate when conŞrmed by histology or ulterior clinical/imagingevaluation. Exclusion of malignancy or infection was considered as diagnoses.Results: Ninety diagnoses (69.2%) were obtained: 87 (96.7%) were accurate and 3 were wrong. FNA wasnon-diagnostic in 40 cases (30.8%) but in 15 (11.5%) it has been possible to conclude if the lesion wasmalignant (n¼ 6) or benign (n ¼ 9). This method was completely inconclusive in 25 cases (19.2%).Conclusion: Despite the low diagnostic yield, accuracy was high. FNA allowed the initiation of treatmentin all 87 patients with a correct diagnosis and in 9 in which malignancy was excluded. Two of the 6biopsies with the information of malignancy were soft tissue lesions. Even here, treatment could bedone, as the majority of soft tissue sarcoma protocols begin with surgery. This study validates FNA as amethod with a high diagnostic accuracy.

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