A comparative study of 200 fine needle aspiration biopsies performed by clinicians and cytopathologists

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1212-1215

  Wu, Maoxin ^a,b   Burstein, David E ^a   Yuan, Songyang ^a   Nurse, Leslie A ^a   Szporn, Arnold H ^a   Zhang, David ^a   Genden, Eric ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 1194 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clinicians; Cytopathologists; FNA; Head and neck masses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGIST; PHYSICIAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33747155358     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000224507.07560.28     Document Type: Article

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