Epidemiologic analysis of thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsies over a period of 18 years (1987-2004)

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 496-500

  Polyzos, S A ^a   Kita, M ^a   Goulis, D G ^b   Benos, A ^b   Flaris, N ^a   Leontsini, M ^a   Avramidis, A ^a  

^a Aristotle University and Hippokration General Hospital   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA); Thyroid cancer; Thyroid gland; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROIDITIS;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 54549123502     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1058082     Document Type: Article

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