Endocrine surgeon-performed US guided thyroid FNAC is accurate and efficient

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1947-1952

  Al Azawi, Dhafir ^a   Mann, G Bruce ^a   Judson, Rodney T ^a   Miller, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84866732937     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1592-2     Document Type: Article

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