Correlation of Various Techniques in Diagnosis of Tuberculous Lymphadenitis on Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology

Table 3

Taking culture as a reference method, analysis of statistical values of Ziehl-Neelsen, auramine-rhodamine stain, and autofluorescence.

	ZN	AR	AF
Sensitivity	80.0%	88.0%	96.0%
Specificity	93.85%	86.15%	78.46%
Positive predictive value	83.33%	70.97%	63.16%
Negative predictive value	92.42%	94.42%	98.08%