Fine needle aspiration of the thyroid gland

• Main Authors: Settakorn J., Thamprasert K., Rangdaeng S., Chaiwun B., Wisedmongkol W.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035495746&partnerID=40&md5=e3abf1ddc7c757c7fd31e87e9f797324; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11804248; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/3818
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Fine needle aspiration (FNA) has become a major diagnostic triage for clinical management of patients with a thyroid mass. Diagnostic accuracy of this procedure can be evaluated by cyto-histologic correlation. Out of 1,761 fine needle aspirates of thyroid glands performed from January 1996 to Decemb...