Cytology and fine needle aspiration are the main methods currently used to assess thyroid nodules. In abscens of preoperative diagnosis or unreliable cytological results, intraoperative biopsy is still useful for clinical resource. The reported specificity with this method is 100% and 50% of sensibility.
lt is extremely important to obtain a correlation between intraoperative and definitive reports; therefore we decided to determine a qually indicator for the evaluation of intraoperative biopsies, efficiercy and the differerces amorg pattdogists.
Materials and Methods: iwo rundred sbdy two intraoperative biopsy reports and their respective definitive reports were analyzed, corresponding to the period 1998 - 2002.
Results: There were a 100% specificity and 87.5% sensibilily. We had no false positives in this group.
Among the results fhat were at first informed as benign, 6/190 had a malignant component in the differed study, but only one was a true false negative.
The non conclusive cases were differed correctly, since most of them were follicular malignancies.
Moyano, L. ., Carreño, L. ., & Robinson , P. . (2003). Correlación diagnóstica entre biopsia intraoperatoria y diferida glándula tiroídes . Revista Hospital Clínico Universidad De Chile, 14(4), pp. 333–8. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7996.2003.79312
