Diagnostic adequacy of surgeon-performed ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules
โ Scribed by Guldeniz Karadeniz Cakmak; Ali U. Emre; Oge Tascilar; Fatma A. Gultekin; Sukru O. Ozdamar; Mustafa Comert
- Book ID
- 112136097
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Volume
- 107
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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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
## BACKGROUND. We reviewed the Massachusetts General Hospital experience with ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies (FNABs) of the thyroid to determine the indications, rate of unsatisfactory smears, correlation with excisional biopsy results, and verification of efficient use of perso