An updated audit of fine needle aspiration cytology procedure of solitary thyroid nodule

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 104-112

  Bukhari, Mulazim Hussain ^a   Niazi, Shahida ^a   Hanif, Ghazala ^b   Qureshi, Shahzad Shafqat ^a   Munir, Mohammad ^a   Hasan, Mumtaz ^a   Naeem, Samina ^a  

^a KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic carcinoma; Colloid goiter; FNAC; Follicular adenoma; Follicular carcinoma; Papillary carcinoma; Solitary cold nodule

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; CLINICAL AUDIT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 38549133426     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20731     Document Type: Article

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