Molecular Testing for Somatic Mutations Improves the Accuracy of Thyroid Fine-needle Aspiration Biopsy

BACKGROUND: Thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy is indeterminate or suspicious in up to 30% of cases and these patients are commonly subjected to at least a diagnostic hemithyroidectomy. If malignant on histology, a completion thyroidectomy is usually performed, which may be associated with...

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Autores principales: Moses, Willieford, Weng, Julie, Sansano, Ileana, Peng, Miao, Khanafshar, Elham, Ljung, Britt-Marie, Duh, Quan-Yang, Clark, Orlo H., Kebebew, Electron
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-010-0720-0

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