## 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 the thyroid: Role of on-site assessment and multiple cytologic preparations
โ Scribed by Zubair W. Baloch; Diane Tam; Jill Langer; Susan Mandel; Virginia A. LiVolsi; Prabodh K. Gupta
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8755-1039
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