Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis
Objectives: the evaluation of the diagnostic value of a cytological examination and its limitations for the diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms.Material and methods: From 1995 to 2004 nine hundred ninety eight patients were operated on for nodular lesions of the thyroid gland in our department. Cytologic...
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| author | Sławomir Jabłoński Jacek Kordiak Mariusz Bella Krzysztof Włodzimierz Zieliński Zbigniew Jabłonowski Edyta Santorek Jacek Rysz |
| author_facet | Sławomir Jabłoński Jacek Kordiak Mariusz Bella Krzysztof Włodzimierz Zieliński Zbigniew Jabłonowski Edyta Santorek Jacek Rysz |
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| description | Objectives: the evaluation of the diagnostic value of a cytological examination and its limitations for the diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms.Material and methods: From 1995 to 2004 nine hundred ninety eight patients were operated on for nodular lesions of the thyroid gland in our department. Cytological and histopathologic diagnoses were compared retrospectively in all cases where a neoplasm was suspected (true positive, false negative and false positive diagnoses). The verification was carried out independently by two pathologists. It enabled the establishment of interpretation errors (IE). The cases where cytological and histopathologic diagnoses were incompatible were interpreted as a sampling error (SE).Results: As a result of the verification 45 cytological and histopathologic diagnoses were changed compared with the primary ones. In the analysed material the following diagnoses were put: true positive – 144, true negative – 824, false positive – 12, false negative – 18. The sensitivity of FNAB was 0.89, specificity 0.99, accuracy 0.97 and a positive predictive diagnostic value 0.92. False cytological diagnoses were found in 75 cases (7.5%). In 45 cases (4.5%) a diagnosis was changed compared with a primary one – interpretation error. In the remaining 30 cases (3%) a false diagnosis was caused by a sampling error. Conclusions: FNAB is an examination of high diagnostic value for the detection of thyroid neoplasms in the hands of an experienced pathologist. False cytological diagnoses comprised only a small part (7.5%) of their total number and were caused by interpretation error in 4.5% and by sampling error in 3.0%. The percentage of interpretation errors can be decreased by a multiple independent assessment of samples. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66d62463087f49c7b3c59b8710a048ac2022-12-21T19:51:08ZengTermedia Publishing HouseArchives of Medical Science1734-19222005-09-0112105109Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosisSławomir JabłońskiJacek KordiakMariusz BellaKrzysztof Włodzimierz ZielińskiZbigniew JabłonowskiEdyta SantorekJacek RyszObjectives: the evaluation of the diagnostic value of a cytological examination and its limitations for the diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms.Material and methods: From 1995 to 2004 nine hundred ninety eight patients were operated on for nodular lesions of the thyroid gland in our department. Cytological and histopathologic diagnoses were compared retrospectively in all cases where a neoplasm was suspected (true positive, false negative and false positive diagnoses). The verification was carried out independently by two pathologists. It enabled the establishment of interpretation errors (IE). The cases where cytological and histopathologic diagnoses were incompatible were interpreted as a sampling error (SE).Results: As a result of the verification 45 cytological and histopathologic diagnoses were changed compared with the primary ones. In the analysed material the following diagnoses were put: true positive – 144, true negative – 824, false positive – 12, false negative – 18. The sensitivity of FNAB was 0.89, specificity 0.99, accuracy 0.97 and a positive predictive diagnostic value 0.92. False cytological diagnoses were found in 75 cases (7.5%). In 45 cases (4.5%) a diagnosis was changed compared with a primary one – interpretation error. In the remaining 30 cases (3%) a false diagnosis was caused by a sampling error. Conclusions: FNAB is an examination of high diagnostic value for the detection of thyroid neoplasms in the hands of an experienced pathologist. False cytological diagnoses comprised only a small part (7.5%) of their total number and were caused by interpretation error in 4.5% and by sampling error in 3.0%. The percentage of interpretation errors can be decreased by a multiple independent assessment of samples.http://www.termedia.pl/magazine.php?magazine_id=19&article_id=3712&magazine_subpage=FULL_TEXTthyroid neoplasmsfine-needle aspiration biopsydiagnostic errors |
| spellingShingle | Sławomir Jabłoński Jacek Kordiak Mariusz Bella Krzysztof Włodzimierz Zieliński Zbigniew Jabłonowski Edyta Santorek Jacek Rysz Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis Archives of Medical Science thyroid neoplasms fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnostic errors |
| title | Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis |
| title_full | Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis |
| title_fullStr | Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis |
| title_short | Original paper <br>Thyroid neoplasms – errors of the cytological diagnosis |
| title_sort | original paper br thyroid neoplasms errors of the cytological diagnosis |
| topic | thyroid neoplasms fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnostic errors |
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