Occasionally patients with thyroid nodules to be evaluated by jine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy also present with regional cervical lymphadenopathy. Aspiration biopsies should be performed on both the thyroid and nodal lesions. This approach will yield important in formation about whether the lesi
Fine-Needel aspiration of thyroid and cervical lymph nodes
โ Scribed by Horst R. Konrad; Travis L. Hindman; Barrett W. Dick
- Book ID
- 117400701
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 96 KB
- Volume
- 112
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0194-5998
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## Three cases of occult thyroid cancer measuring 10, 6, and 3 mm in diameter were discovered by jine-needle aspiration cytology of cervical lymph nodes. In these three cases, thyroid tumors were not palpable, and scintigraphic, echographic, and sof-tissue radiologic examinations demonstrated no abn