Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy: Variability in reporting

Thyroid

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 717-723

  Lewis, Carol M ^a,b   Chang, Kuo Ping ^a,b   Pitman, Martha ^b,c   Faquin, William C ^b,c   Randolph, Gregory W ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBLISHING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 67749091315     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2008.0425     Document Type: Article

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