Performance differences between conventional smears and liquid-based preparations of thyroid fine-needle aspiration samples: Analysis of 47 076 responses in the college of american pathologists interlaboratory comparison program in non-gynecologic cytology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-31

  Fischer, Andrew H ^a   Clayton, Amy C ^b   Bentz, Joel S ^c   Wasserman, Patricia G ^d   Henry, Michael R ^b   Souers, Rhona J ^e   Moriarty, Ann T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c Laboratory Med Consultants Ltd   (United States)

^d Northwell Health   (United States)

^e North Carolina   (United States)

^f AmeriPath Indiana ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GOITER; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GOITER; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872012333     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2012-0009-CP     Document Type: Article

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