Does Large Needle Aspiration Biopsy Add Pain to the Thyroid Nodule Evaluation?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Carpi, Angelo ^a   Rossi, Giuseppe ^b   Nicolini, Andrea ^a   Iervasi, Giorgio ^b   Russo, Matteo ^c   Mechanick, Jeffrey ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; LARGE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BIOPSY, LARGE-CORE NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84874831699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058016     Document Type: Article

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