Keywords:
Cancer, Efficacy studies, Biopsy, Ultrasound, Oncology, Kidney
Authors:
D. Plut, S. Ponorac, D. Vidmar-Bracika; Ljubljana/SI
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2013/C-1742
Results
Of the 60 patients who had a fine-needle biopsy procedure performed,
the biopsy yielded a diagnostic result in 50 of the procedures (83,3%).
Fig. 9: Success rate of fine-needle aspiration cytology resulting in a diagnostic specimen.
30 patients were diagnosed with a malignant disease.
Fig. 10: In our study results confirmed malignancy in 50% of patients who underwent fine-needle aspiration cytology procedure.
Definite hystology data was available for 17 of these cases,
in 13 patients no definite hystology could be gathered.
For some patients the surgical procedure was contraindicated,
some decided against the surgical procedure and some chose a different institution for the surgical procedure and thus pathology result was not accessible.
The comparisment between the fine-needle aspiration cytology results and definite histology reports of the 17 cases showed a perfect,
100% match in confirming malignancy.
Fig. 11: Comparing the results of ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology with the definite hystology reports in patients with malignant lesions who underwent surgical procedures showed a perfect match.