Experience with standardized thyroid fine-needle aspiration reporting categories: Follow-up data from 529 cases with "indeterminate" or "atypical" reports

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 423-433

  Nga, Min En ^a   Kumarasinghe, Marian P ^b   Tie, Bibiana ^b   Sterrett, Gregory F ^b   Wood, Benjamin ^b   Walsh, John ^b   Nguyen, Hue ^b   Whyte, Andrew ^c   Frost, Felicity A ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Perth Radiological Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

Follicular lesions; Inconclusive thyroid nodules; Thyroid cytology diagnostic categories; Thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology; Thyroid fine needle aspiration reporting; Thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 79952198250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.20111     Document Type: Article

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