Fine needle aspiration cytology prior to breast ultrasonography does not alter ultrasound diagnostic accuracy or patient management

Laws, Siobhan; McNamara, Iain; Cheetham, Jon; Rainsbury, RM

doi:10.1054/brst.2002.0436

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“…The positive and negative predictive values of FNAB were 100%, and 88.7% respectively. Similar finding were reported in literature (22,23,24) .The FNAB is a good test for pre-operative decision, but true cut always provides a better histological diagnosis and is more accurate and more trusted.…”

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Accuracy of Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (F.N.A.B) in Diagnosis of Breast Lump

Abedalrahman¹

2020

Al-Kindy Col. Med. J

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Background: Breast cancer is the first one among Iraqi females. Most of them present later for diagnosis. Early detection center in tertiary hospital practice uses FNAB for early diagnosis. Publications on accuracy of this detection are scarce. Objective: To test the accuracy of FNAB in breast lump diagnosis. Methods: Diagnostic test accuracy study, on 204 women with breast lump, attending the oncology department in 2017. Results: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of histologically malignant cases were, malignant in 89 (87.3%), suspicious of malignancy in 5 (4.9%), and benign in 4 (3.9%). Complete sensitivity was 87.3%, and specificity was 100%, with 12.7% false negative results and no false positive cases. The accuracy was 94%.

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