## 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
Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of hepatic hemangioma
โ Scribed by Eugenio Caturelli; Glan Ludovica Rapaccini; Carlo Sabelli; Filiberto De Simone; Alfredo Fabiano; Emanuele Romagna-Manoja; Marcello Anti; Giuseppe Fedeli
- Book ID
- 114796510
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 962 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0106-9543
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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
## BACKGROUND. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) allows detailed imaging of both intramural and extramural structures of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and also allows tissue samples to be obtained from masses and lesions in the GI tract. The objective of the cu