A prospective controlled study of fine-needle aspiration and Tru-cut®needle biopsy of dominant thyroid nodules
✍ Scribed by John Boey; C. Hsu; Robert J. Collins; John Wong
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 792 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Ultrasound (US)-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) was performed on 268 thyroid nodules (135 palpable, 133 nonpalpable) in 210 patients with various thyroid conditions; 62 nodules also had palpation-guided FNA. Surgical pathology was obtained in 67 malignant nodules and 32 benign nodules. Al
Abstract Conventional criteria for the evaluation of thyroid nodules are inaccurate in identifying the small proportion of malignant neoplasms. The diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FN AB) for cytology was therefore assessed in 562 patients with nodular thyroid disease, 373 of wh