## 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 of lung cancers
β Scribed by Hsu, Wu-Huei; Chiang, Chi-Der; Hsu, Jeng-Yuan; Kwan, Po-Cheung; Chen, Chun-Lieh; Chen, Chih-Yi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 948 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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