Prospective controlled assessment of fine-needle prostatic aspiration

Evaluation of The Role of Transrectal Fine Needle Aspiration As A Diagnostic Modality in The Diseases of Prostate with Review of Literature

“…7,10 Melagrana et al and Lin et al reported higher false negative cases as 20.0% and 29.0% respectively. 52,53 As most of the clinicians are aware of the hazards which is inherent, mostly on account of insufficient smears and are always prepared to repeat the aspiration, if they clinically suspect malignancy. Further it can be confirmed on long follow up, on repeat aspiration.…”

Prostate Cancer Screening Using Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology prior to Open Prostatectomy

“…digital rectal examination (DRE), transrectal ultraso nography (TRUS), and serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) [13][14][15][16][17], Yet screening the population at large has not definitively been shown to affect mortality (effects of lead time and length time biases) or to be cost-effective [2,17,18]. We did not aim to address the issue of generalized screening.…”

“…2 Sensitivity 65%; positive predictive value 38%; specificity 79%; negative predictive value 94%. l FNA cytology of an abnormal prostate on digital rectal examination is highly accurate and cost-effective in de tecting malignancy [2,4,5,23,24], Some authors consid er positive cytology alone as diagnostic of malignancy and propose FINA as a preliminary office screening procedure [6,8,25,26], FNA cytology prior to transurethral resec tion for 'benign' enlargement to screen for A2 lesions was advocated by Agatstein et al [ 10] as safe, simple, and costeffective. We intended to assess the value of FNA in screening this population of patients for carcinoma of the prostate.…”

“…Fine-needle aspira tion cytology (FNA) of lesions suspected of malignancy on digital rectal examination is equally sensitive and specific to core needle biopsy and clearly a valuable diagnostic modality [2][3][4][5][6], Some authors advocate employing FNA as a screening method for occult carcinoma of the prostate [7][8][9], particularly A2 lesions [10],…”

A Correlative Study Between Transrectal Fnac And Histology Of The Prostate For The Detection Of Prostate Carcinoma.

“…Similarly Melograna et al in 1982 reported confirmation of diagnosis occur 91% time, 96% with BPH, 77% with carcinoma and 100% with prostatitis. [7] Hosking et al in 1983 conducted a prospective study during 2 year period comparing the accuracy of trans-rectal FNA with that of trans-perineal needle biopsy in diagnosis of prostatic carcinoma. [8] With increasing experience the accuracy of aspiration of aspiration was found to be at least equal to that of biopsy.…”