The predictivity of thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy varies depending on the radiologist experience: A retrospective cohort study

Aim: To compare thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy with histopathological examination results.Material and Methods: Postoperative histopathological examination results of 361 patients, who were thyroidectomized betweenDecember 2010 and October 2017 in Inonu University Turgut Ozal Medical Center Department of General Surgery and whosepreoperative FNAB registries we could reach were evaluated retrospectively. Biopsies made in external centers were included inpreoperative FNAB results. FNAB results were examined according to Bethesda 2007 in 6 categories: unsatisfactory, benign, atypiaof undetermined significance, follicular lesion-neoplasm or suspicious for a neoplasm, suspicious for malignancy and malignant.Histopathological results of patients with incidental malignancy were presumed benign.Results: Among the 361 patients that were included in the study, 274 were female (75.9%), 87 were male(24.1%). Mean age of thepatients in the benign group was 49.1±12.5 years, and 48.6±13.5 years in the malignant group. It was found that FNAB’s sensitivitywas 83.9 %, specificity was 92.4%, false positive rate was 16.1% and false negative rate was 7.6%.Conclusion: FNAB is reported as the gold standard for preoperative evaluation of thyroid nodules. In our study, however, it wasseen that FNAB was not adequate alone t

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