Open AccessFine needle aspiration cytology of atypical (C3) and suspicious (C4) categories in the breast and its histopathologic correlation
Author(s) -
P Arul,
Suresh Masilamani,
C Akshatha
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cytology/journal of cytology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-5165
pISSN - 0970-9371
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9371.182522
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , medical diagnosis , fine needle aspiration cytology , cytology , predictive value , radiology , breast cancer , significant difference , correlation , retrospective cohort study , cancer , pathology , geometry , mathematics
In 1996, National Cancer Institute (NCI) proposed five categories for the diagnosis of breast cytology in order to bring a degree of uniformity to the diagnostic reporting. Of these, categories 3 and 4 were sparsely studied.