A THREE YEARS STUDY OF FNAC OF  THYROID LESIONS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Deep Jyoti Kalita; Barnali Das

Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2016

A THREE YEARS STUDY OF FNAC OF THYROID LESIONS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Deep Jyoti Kalita, Barnali Das

Abstract :

Background; Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is the gold standard among diagnostic tests for evaluation of thyroid lesions. It is important for preoperative and pretreatment diagnosis of benign and malignant lesions, thus decreasing the incidence of and preventing unwarranted surgeries. Objectives; This study aims to study and classify various cytomorphological lesions of the thyroid according to The Bethesda System for Reporting of Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC). We did a retrospective study of results of FNAC in thyroid lesions, from Feuary 2013 to January 2016. Fine needle aspiration done on 664 patients with palpable thyroid lesions were analyzed and classified according to TBSRTC. Results; Out of total 664cases studied, 530 (79.81%) were non neoplastic, 92 (13.85%) were neoplastic, 12 (1.8%) was indeterminate and 30 (4.51%) was inadequate. Conclusion; FNAC is a simple, safe, cost effective and widely accepted modality for evaluation of thyroid lesions especially in Third world countries like India. FNA helps to avoid unnecessary surgery in patients with benign lesions. The suspicious and indeterminate lesions are an area of uncertainty which can be resolved by histopathology