Role of repeat fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the management of thyroid nodules

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 203-206

  Baloch, Zubair W ^a   LiVolsi, Virginia A ^a   Jain, Pooja ^a   Jain, Rishi ^a   Aljada, Ibrahim ^a   Mandel, Susan ^a   Langer, Jill E ^a   Gupta, Prabodh K ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Indeterminate; Malignancy; Nondiagnostic; Repeat FNAB; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOCYTOMA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASOUND;

ADENOMA, OXYPHILIC; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; REOPERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0141705276     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10361     Document Type: Article

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