## 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
Role of operator experience in ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid
โ Scribed by E. De Fiori; C. Rampinelli; F. Turco; L. Bonello; M. Bellomi
- Book ID
- 107387887
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- Italian
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 115
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-8362
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BACKGROUND. Ultrasound (US) has been shown to be a sensitive technique for monitoring patients for recurrent thyroid carcinoma in the thyroid bed after total thyroidectomy. However, the role of US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the confirmation of sonographically indeterminate or sus
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