Intraoperative pathologic examination in the era of molecular testing for differentiated thyroid cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 546-554

  McCoy, Kelly L ^a   Carty, Sally E ^a   Armstrong, Michaele J ^a   Seethala, Raja R ^a   Ohori, N Paul ^a   Kabaker, Adam S ^a   Stang, Michael T ^a   Hodak, Steven P ^a   Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a   Yip, Linwah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Thyroid Association; ATA; differentiated thyroid cancer; DTC; fine needle aspiration biopsy; FN; FNAB; follicular or Hurthle cell neoplasm; follicular thyroid cancer; follicular variant; FTC; FV; intraoperative pathologic examination; IOPE; lesion of undetermined significance atypia of undetermined significance; LUS; molecular testing; MT; papillary thyroid cancer; papillary thyroid microcarcinoma; PTC; PTMC

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84866366518     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.05.027     Document Type: Article

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