Fine-needle aspiration of thyroid tumors: Identifying factors associated with adequacy rate in a large academic center in the Netherlands

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 40, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  De Meer, Sijbrigje G A ^a   Schreinemakers, Jennifer M J ^a   Zelissen, Pierre M J ^a   Stapper, Gerard ^a   Sie Go, Daisy M D S ^a   Rinkes, Inne H M Borel ^a   Vriens, Menno R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adequacy; fine needle cytology; thyroid tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NETHERLANDS; PALPATION; PALPATION GUIDED ASPIRATION BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND GUIDED ASPIRATION BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84861534796     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21521     Document Type: Article

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