Transthoracic fine-needle aspiration. Experience in a cancer center
- 14 November 1985
- Vol. 56 (10), 2504-2507
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(19851115)56:10<2504::aid-cncr2820561030>3.0.co;2-a
Abstract
The authors summarize 5 years' experience with transthoracic fine-needle aspiration (TFNA) in 180 patients. Aspirated tumors tended to be large and peripheral. A large pneumothorax was seen after 4.3% of aspirations, and various minor complications followed another 23.3%. Emphysema was a significant risk factor for complications. Follow-up confirmed 151 cancers, with a wide variety of origins and histologic types. In the diagnosis of cancer, TFNA cytology had a specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of 82%. Positive TFNA findings usually provided the earliest microscopic diagnosis of cancer or of cancer stage.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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