Ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration of thyroid incidentaloma: Correlation with pathological findings

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-28

  Nam Goong, Il Seong ^a   Kim, Ha Young ^a   Gong, Gyungyub ^a   Lee, Ho Kyu ^a   Hong, Suck Joon ^a   Kim, Won Bae ^a   Shong, Young Kee ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 0842287635     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01912.x     Document Type: Article

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