Clinical outcomes for suspicious category in thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy patient's sex and nodule size are possible predictors of malignancy

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 787-790

  Raparia, Kirtee ^a,b   Min, Soo Kee ^a,b   Mody, Dina R ^a,b   Anton, Rose ^a,b   Amrikachi, Mojgan ^a,b,c  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital   (South Korea)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; FOLLOW UP; IN VITRO STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA, OXYPHILIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649147516     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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