Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid

✍ Scribed by Tambouret, Rosemary ;Szyfelbein, Wanda M. ;Pitman, Martha B.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 84 KB
• Volume: 87
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19991025)87:5<299::aid-cncr10>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

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 personnel time.

METHODS.

All radiologically guided FNABs of the thyroid from January 1993 through June 1997 were reviewed. As a measure of efficient use of technologist time, a sample of times spent by the technologist during the procedure for 20 cases in 1993 and 1997 was compared with that of an equal number of random nonthyroid image guided FNABs.