Comparison of the costs of fine-needle aspiration and open surgical biopsy as methods for obtaining a pathologic diagnosis

Cancer

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-56

  Rimm, David L ^a   Stastny, Janet F ^b   Rimm, Eric B ^c   Ayer, Sanjay ^a   Frable, William J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Cost savings; Cytopathology; Fine needle aspiration; Lymph node; Salivary gland; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; THYROID DISEASE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0031585841     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970225)81:1<51::AID-CNCR11>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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