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Quality assurance in a fine-needle aspiration biopsy service

✍ Scribed by Michael B. Cohen; Robert V. Sideli

Book ID: 102139325
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 231 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 8755-1039
DOI: 10.1002/dc.2840070604

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✦ Synopsis

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is an increasingly popular tool for the evaluation of a variety of palpable and nonpalpable masses. Its acceptance has been based on its simplicity, safety, and accuracy. It is its accuracy that is crucial and that requires careful clinical and/or histologic follow-up. In order to satisfv our own department's quality assurance requirements, we developed a computer-based searching program that effectively identifies FNAB cases in which there was histologic follow-up and retrieves the necessary information to produce a meaningful quality assur-

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