Intraoperative pathologic examination: Cost effectiveness and clinical value in patients with cytologic diagnosis of cellular follicular thyroid lesion

Thyroid

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 557-565

  Miller, Matthew C ^a   Rubin, Cory J ^a   Cunnane, Mary ^a   Bibbo, Marluce ^a   Miller, Jeffrey L ^a   Keane, William M ^a   Pribitkin, Edmund A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 34447504658     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.0166     Document Type: Article

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