Non-imaging-guided fine-needle aspiration of liver lesions: a retrospective study of 279 patients

Table 3 Relationship between nonguided fine-needle aspiration cytodiagnosis and type of suspected malignant liver lesions demonstrated by different kinds of imaging liver scanning among patients with malignant liver disease

Type of imaging and lesions*	No. of imagings	True- positives	False- negatives	True- negatives	False- positives
Radioisotope
Unifocal	35	23	5	7	0
Multifocal	96	71	17	7	1
US
Unifocal	21	15	2	4	0
Multifocal	61	46	11	3	1
CT
Unifoca	l8	6	1	1	0
Multifocal	9	5	3	1	0

*Patient may have more than one imaging scanning.