Feasibility of immediate assessment of fine needle aspirates of thyroid nodules by telecytopathology

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-18

  Izquierdo, Roberto E ^a   Kasturi, Rohini ^a   Khurana, Kamal ^a   Hopkins, Rachel ^a   Swati, Ismatun ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS NODULE CYST; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GOITER; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTIC THYROIDITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONCOCYTOMA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PILOT STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TELECYTOPATHOLOGY; TELEPATHOLOGY; THYROID CYST; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEPATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84881536584     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP11374.OR     Document Type: Article

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