Abstract
Background: For the purpose of preoperative diagnosis of thyroid lesions, the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) has now replaced many other conventional pathology tests. Objective: To know to what extent the FNAC results are accurate by correlating them with results of histopathology. Patients and Methods: In this retrospective study, ninety-four cases of thyroid gland lesions were collected from the Department of Histopathology at Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil City, Iraq during the period of three years, from January 2015 to December 2017, and correlate their FNAC outcome with that of histopathology. Results: A total of 94 cases were included in this study, 70 cases (74%) were female. Fifty cases (53%) were between 21-40 years of age. FNAC and histopathological results were correspondent in 84 cases (89.4%). The most common thyroid gland lesion was nodular colloid goiter occurred in 72 cases (77%) as confirmed by histopathology. Conclusion: The FNAC is relatively safe, simple, and cost effective preoperative diagnostic tool for thyroid lesions. However, it has some limitations.
Highlights
Diseases of thyroid gland are of great first reported by Martin and Ellis at New importance because most are amenable to York Memorial Hospital in 1930[2]
The medical and surgical management, and one Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) of the most challenging tasks a modern has become the initial diagnostic physician faces is judging the nature of the procedure that replaced the ordinary thyroid lesion and thereby advocating precise pathologic tests for pre-operative diagnosis and adequate management of thyroid of thyroid lesions
Fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) for most of benign thyroid lesions are made by cytology evaluation of thyroid lesions was the FNAC; this has resulted in an increase in the incidence of malignancy in thyroidectomy patients from 10% to 30-50% in recent years[3]
Summary
Diseases of thyroid gland are of great first reported by Martin and Ellis at New importance because most are amenable to York Memorial Hospital in 1930[2]. Fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) for most of benign thyroid lesions are made by cytology evaluation of thyroid lesions was the FNAC; this has resulted in an increase in the incidence of malignancy in thyroidectomy patients from 10% to 30-50% in recent years[3]. Patients and Methods: In this retrospective study, ninety-four cases of thyroid gland lesions were collected from the Department of Histopathology at Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil City, Iraq during the period of three years, from January 2015 to December 2017, and correlate their FNAC outcome with that of histopathology. Conclusion: The FNAC is relatively safe, simple, and cost effective preoperative diagnostic tool for thyroid lesions.
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