Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy and ultrasonographic features of infracentimetric nodules in patients with nodular goiter: Correlation with pathological findings

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-74

  Sahin, Mustafa ^a   Sengul, Aysegul ^a   Berki, Zeynep ^a   Tutuncu, Neslihan B ^a   Guvener, Nilgun D ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Infracentimetric nodules; Thyroid cancer; Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TURKEY;

EID: 33745698027     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/EP:17:1:67     Document Type: Article

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