Is repeated fine-needle aspiration cytology useful in the management of patients with benign nodular thyroid disease?
Merchant SH; Izquierdo R; Khurana KK Department of Pathology, State University of New York, Syracuse 13210, USA. Management of nonneoplastic thyroid nodules (TN) diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is controversial. While clinical follow-up with repeat FNA for enlarging TN is recommended in some studies, others recommend repeat FNA in follow-up of all benign TN after several months or years, in order to identify possible misdiagnosed malignant lesions. This study was done to determine the usefulness of repeat FNA in patients with benign nodular thyroid disease. We studied 94 fine-needle reaspirations performed on 43 females and 2 males 48.2 +/- 17 years of age with benign nodular thyroid nodular disease. Four patients had 3 consecutive FNAs and 41 patients had 2 consecutive FNAs. All FNAs were carried out by the same endocrinologist in the same thyroid area or by cytopathologists. The average time elapsed between the two consecutive FNAs was 18.3 +/- 11.2 (range, 4-48) months. Of
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