Cytopathologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Diseases by Transthoracic Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy

경흉세침흡인 생검에 의한 폐질환의 세포병리학적 진단

  • Park, In-Ae (Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Ham, Eui-Keun (Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital)
  • Published : 1990.06.30

Abstract

The authors report series of 360 cases of transthoracic fine-needle aspiration cytology (TFNA) from Oct. 1982, through Aug. 1986 at the Seoul National University Hospital. A diagnosis of neoplastic lesion was established in 50.3% of the cases. A non-neoplastic diagnosis was made in 38.5%, nondiagnostic one in 6.5% and inadequate one in 4.7% of the total. Statistical findings on cytological diagnoses were as follows. Specificity was 100% ; sensitivity, 92% ; predictive value for positive, 1.0 ; predictive value for negative, 0.9 ; concordance rate, 84.2% ; diagnostic accuracy in non-neoplastic lesion, 65.4%, and typing accuracy in malignant tumor, 0.77.

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