Role of fine-needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of secondary tumors of the thyroid - Twenty years' experience

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 240-245

  Aron, Manju ^a   Kapila, Kusum ^a   Verma, Kusum ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; FNAC; Metastatic tumors of thyroid; Pitfalls; Secondary tumors of thyroid

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LARYNX TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TRACHEA TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 33644891617     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20329     Document Type: Review

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