Diagnostic Efficacy of Transthoracic Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Localized Intrathoracic Lesions

Lee, Suk Kwon; Jeon, Jee Hong; Yoon, Ki Heon; Yoo, Jee Hong; Kang, Hong Mo

doi:1990.37.3.294

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 37(3); 1990 > Article

Original Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1990;37(3):294-299.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1990.37.3.294 Published online September 1, 1990.

Diagnostic Efficacy of Transthoracic Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Localized Intrathoracic Lesions

Suk Kwon Lee, Jee Hong Jeon, Ki Heon Yoon, Jee Hong Yoo, Hong Mo Kang

Department of Internal Medicine, Kyunghee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

경피적 침 흡인 생검법의 진단적 유용성

이석권, 전지홍, 윤기헌, 유지홍, 강홍모

Abstract

Transthoracic Needle Aspiration Biopsy (TNAB) is a useful diagnostic technique for evaluation of the localized intrathoracic lesions Previous reports have shown that this technique had a high positive but a low negative predictive value. To evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of TNAB in patients with localized chest lesions, TNAB was performed in the 44 patients over period of recent two years. The obtained results were as follows; 1) The overall predictive value of TNAB was 61.4 percent. 2) The positive predictive value of TNAB in malignant lesion was 95.8 percent, that of TNAB in benign lesion was 28.6 percent 3) The complications during procedure occurred in 9 percent, but none of them required specific treatment Above results suggest that TNAB is a reliable diagnostic method for the investigation of the localized chest lesions that cannot be diagnosed by fiberoptic bronchoscope and sputum cytologic examínatíon.