Clinical and cytological features predictive of malignancy in thyroid follicular neoplasms

Thyroid

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-31

  Lubitz, Carrie C ^a   Faquin, William C ^b   Yang, Jingyun ^a   Mekel, Michal ^a   Gaz, Randall D ^a   Parangi, Sareh ^a   Randolph, Gregory W ^a   Hodin, Richard A ^a   Stephen, Antonia E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CYTOPATHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATHOLOGIST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS SHAPE; CELL NUCLEUS SIZE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 75149168796     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2009.0208     Document Type: Article

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