A clinical algorithm for fine-needle aspiration molecular testing effectively guides the appropriate extent of initial thyroidectomy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 163-168

  Yip, Linwah ^a,b   Wharry, Laura I ^a   Armstrong, Michaele J ^a   Silbermann, Ari ^a   McCoy, Kelly L ^a   Stang, Michael T ^a   Ohori, Nobuyuki P ^a   Lebeau, Shane O ^b   Coyne, Christopher ^b   Nikiforova, Marina N ^a   Bauman, Julie E ^a   Johnson, Jonas T ^b   Tublin, Mitch E ^b   Hodak, Steven P ^b   Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a   Carty, Sally E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

indeterminate nodule; molecular markers; thyroid; thyroid cancer; thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDECTOMY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84902134645     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000215     Document Type: Article

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