Preoperative diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma: Fine needle aspiration cytology as compared with serum calcitonin measurement

The cost-effectiveness of fine-needle as

The cost-effectiveness of fine-needle aspiration cytology and 14-gauge core needle biopsy compared with open surgical biopsy in the diagnosis of breast carcinoma

✍ Wende Logan-Young; Andrea E. Dawson; David C. Wilbur; Eduardo E. Avila; Zygmunt 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 82 KB 👁 2 views

## Background: Judicious utilization of fine-needle aspiration cytology (fnac) and 14-gauge core needle biopsy (cb) theoretically should result in greater accuracy in breast carcinoma diagnosis and fewer unnecessary open surgical biopsies (osbs), thus lowering health care costs. ## Methods: In 19