Best practice no 171: Best practice in thyroid pathology

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 401-405

  Anderson, C E ^a   McLaren, K M ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY TITER; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FROZEN SECTION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; CRYOPRESERVATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037493650     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.6.401     Document Type: Review

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