On-site adequacy evaluations performed by cytotechnologists: Correlation with final interpretations of 5241 image-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-184

  Burlingame, Oname O ^a,b   Kessé, Kessé O ^a   Silverman, Stuart G ^a,b   Cibas, Edmund S ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adequacy evaluation; Cytotechnologist; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Image guided biopsy; Interventional radiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTECHNOLOGIST; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84865108136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.20184     Document Type: Article

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