Thyroglobulin in washout fluid from lymph node fine-needle aspiration biopsy in papillary thyroid cancer: Large-scale validation of the cutoff value to determine malignancy and evaluation of discrepant results

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1061-1068

  Moon, Jae Hoon ^a   Kim, Yong Il ^b   Lim, Jung Ah ^c   Choi, Hoon Sung ^c   Cho, Sun Wook ^c   Kim, Kyung Won ^b   Park, Hyo Jin ^a   Paeng, Jin Chul ^b   Park, Young Joo ^c   Yi, Ka Hee ^d   Park, Do Joon ^b,c   Kim, Sang Eun ^b   Chung, June Key ^b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University Boramae Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BODY FLUIDS; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874893111     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-3291     Document Type: Article

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