## 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
The case for pathologist ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy
β Scribed by Abele, John S.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 70 KB
- Volume
- 114
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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