## 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
Needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid: Revisited
โ Scribed by Sudha R. Kini
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 307 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8755-1039
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