Indian Journal of Pathology and Oncology
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Diagnostic accuracy of Fine needle aspiration cytology in lymphadenopathy-our experience in a tertiary care hospital

1Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College & PGIMSR, KK Nagar, Chennai, 600078

2Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College & PGIMSR, KK Nagar, Chennai, 600078

3Head of the department, Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College & PGIMSR, KK Nagar, Chennai, 600078

*Corresponding Author: E-mail: drkms75@gmail.com

Online published on 10 October, 2016.

Abstract

To study the different causes of lymphadenopathy and to document the various causes of enlargement of lymph nodes.

294 cases of lymphadenopathy patients were included in this study who visited the pathology department in our medical college hospital from January 2014 to September 2015. For each patient, minimum four smears were made from each site of aspiration and smears are stained with Papanicolaou stain routinely and special stains were used wherever necessary arose.

Accuracy of diagnosis was more than 95% in most of the cases and 100% in metastatic diseases. Subtyping of Non Hodgkin lymphoma was not possible as histopathology and Immunohistochemistry are gold standards for these lymphomas.

Keywords

FNAC, lymph nodes, metastasis, Hodgkin lymphoma, granuloma