[Value of cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules (93 cases)].

This is a prospective study of 93 thyroid cytologic spécimen from the department of ORL of Charles Nicole Hospital and analysed by the department of Pathology of the same Hospital. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of thyroid cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. The age average in our study was 40 years with a male-female ratio of 1/6. Thyroid cells were collected by a fine needle aspiration. The following results were obtained: an interpretability rate of 7.52%, a sensitivity of cytological examination as compaired with histopathological examination of 70% and a specificity of 97.43%.