J Korean Soc Pediatr Nephrol.  1997 May;1(1):17-23.

Prognostic Factors in Childhood IgA Nephropathy

• Cho BS
• Kim DY
• Park JH
• Kim PK
• Jeong HJ
• Choi IJ

Abstract

The authors report series of 360 cases of transthoracic fine-needle aspiration cytology (TFNA) from Oct. 1982, through Aug. 1986 at the Seoul National University Hospital. A diagnosis of neoplastic lesion was established in 50.3% of the cases. A non-neop- lastic diagnosis was made in 38.5%, nondiagnostic one in 6.5% and inadequate one in 4.7% of the total. Statistical findings on cytological diagnoses were as follows. Specificity was 100%: sensitivity, 92%; predictive value for positive, 1.0: predictive value for negative, 0.9; concordance rate, 84.2%: diagnostic accuracy in non-neoplastic lesion, 65.4%, and typing accuracy in malignant tumor, 0.77.

Keyword

Transthoracic fine needle aspiration; Cytology; Statistics

MeSH Terms

Biopsy, Fine-Needle
Diagnosis
Glomerulonephritis, IGA*
Immunoglobulin A*
Sensitivity and Specificity
Seoul
Immunoglobulin A