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  • Title: Pulmonary fine needle aspiration cytopathology. A five-year correlation study.
    Author: Mitchell ML, King DE, Bonfiglio TA, Patten SF.
    Journal: Acta Cytol; 1984; 28(1):72-6. PubMed ID: 6320564.
    Abstract:
    Transthoracic fine needle aspiration specimens with abnormal cytology were obtained from 272 patients between 1976 and 1980 at the University of Rochester Medical Center. A comparison was made between the original specific cytologic and final histologic diagnoses on 116 patients; an additional 16 patients with the cytologic diagnosis of small-cell carcinoma were evaluated by clinical criteria. Analysis of the data indicated that malignant neoplasms were identified correctly with an accuracy of 99%. There was a single false-positive diagnosis. Predictive values for a specific morphologic variant of pulmonary neoplasm were 70% for squamous-cell carcinoma, 86% for adenocarcinoma and 95% for small-cell carcinoma. The probable bases for diagnostic error are discussed. Confidence intervals calculated from these data compared favorably with those in recently reported studies. The results reconfirmed the value of fine needle aspiration cytopathology for the diagnosis of pulmonary neoplasms.
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