Rates of thyroid malignancy by FNA diagnostic category

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Williams, Blair A ^a   Bullock, Martin J ^a   Trites, Jonathan R ^a   Taylor, S Mark ^a   Hart, Robert D ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration; FNA; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HEMITHYROIDECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POORLY DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; ADENOCARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THYROID GLAND;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84896917460     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1916-0216-42-61     Document Type: Article

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