SAADETTİN ÇIKRIKÇIOĞLU, ZEKİ KILIÇARSLAN, ADNAN EKMEKÇİOĞLU, UĞUR HACIHANEFİOĞLU, HAYATİ ÖZYURT
Yedikule Göğüs Hastalıkları Hastanesi ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Merkezi
157 transthoracic fine-needle aspirations were performed on 139 patients, who were suspected to have lung cancer between 1985and 1988 in our clinic. We confirmed the diagnosis or tumour on 107patients with surgery or clinico-radiologic follow-up, for at least six months. 84 (79 percent) of these patients were true positive, 4 were suspicious cancer, 19 (17 percent) were false negative. 10 patients (6 percent) experienced minimal pneumothorax, which didn't required surgical drainage for re-expansion. Minimal hemoptysis occurred in four patients (3 percent).
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