Abstract
Background- Thyroid swellings are commonly investigated in cytology section and its uniform reporting to convey a decision making diagnosis to clinician is important, hence this study is done to compare conventional and Bathesda system for thyroid cytology reporting. A Prospective study on 100 pati Methodology – ents done who came for thyroid ne needle aspiration cytology. Aspiration done and smears prepared and reporting is done by Bathesda system as well as by conventional system and compared for its accuracy and uniformity. Results: The mean age of presentation of patients in present study is 38.06years. Out of 100 cases, 78 were females and 22 males. The ratio of Non neoplastic and Neoplastic lesion was 2.7:1 by Bethesda system and 3.0:1 by Conventional system. It was observed that, introduction of the new simplied Bethesda thyroid reporting system into six categories logically relates to the prognosis of thyroid diseases and may increase the reproducibility of diagnosis. Each diagnostic category conveys specic risks of malignancy, which offers guidance for patient management. Bethesda system of reporting can effectively determine which patient needed Conclusion: surgery/ follow-up. Bethesda system may be used as national standardized terminology for thyroid FNAC reporting
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