Correlation of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology with Histopathology in the Diagnosis of Solitary Thyroid Nodule

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">FNAC finding</td><td align="left">Histopathology result</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">False positive</td><td align="left"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Follicular neoplasm</td><td align="left">Colloid nodular goitre</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Suspected malignancy</td><td align="left">Hashimoto’s thyroiditis </td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">False negative</td><td align="left"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Colloid nodular goitre</td><td align="left">Follicular adenoma</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Colloid nodular goitre</td><td align="left">Papillary carcinoma</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Summary of false positive and false negative results of FNAC. 

Journal of Thyroid Research

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Table 4: Correlation of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology with Histopathology in the Diagnosis of Solitary Thyroid Nodule 