The clinical and diagnostic impact of using standard criteria of adequacy assessment and diagnostic terminology on thyroid nodule fine needle aspiration

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-166

  Jing, Xin ^a   Michael, Claire W ^a   Pu, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

FNA; Standard CAST; Thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTIC THYROIDITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOMA, OXYPHILIC; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 39749175193     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20762     Document Type: Article

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