Ultrasound guidance improves the adequacy of our preoperative thyroid cytology but not its accuracy

Cytopathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 137-144

  Mehrotra, P ^b   Viswanathan, H ^c   Johnson, S J ^a   Wadehra, V ^a   Richardson, D L ^a   Lennard, T W J ^b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Fine needle aspiration cytology; Thyroid gland; Ultrasound scan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOPLASM; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID GLAND;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33744769118     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2006.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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