Minimizing the diagnosis of "follicular lesion of undetermined significance" and identifying predictive features for neoplasia

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 737-742

  Jing, Xin ^a   Roh, Michael H ^a   Knoepp, Stewart M ^a   Zhao, Lili ^b   Michael, Claire W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

FNA; follicular lesion of undetermined significance; thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CYTOPLASM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052898479     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21459     Document Type: Article

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