Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration in Taiwan: The History and Current Practice

In Taiwan, thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine gland malignancy and the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased four-fold in the past two decades. Fine-needle aspiration is an accurate and cost-effective method of evaluating thyroid nodules and has been the gold-standard diagnostic tool fo...

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Autores principales: Hang, Jen-Fan, Hsu, Chih-Yi, Lai, Chiung-Ru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Pathologists and the Korean Society for Cytopathology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29046515
http://dx.doi.org/10.4132/jptm.2017.09.20
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description In Taiwan, thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine gland malignancy and the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased four-fold in the past two decades. Fine-needle aspiration is an accurate and cost-effective method of evaluating thyroid nodules and has been the gold-standard diagnostic tool for thyroid tumors in Taiwan since the 1980s. This article reviews the history, current practice, reporting systems, training, and quality assurance for thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology in Taiwan.
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spelling pubmed-57008832017-11-29 Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration in Taiwan: The History and Current Practice Hang, Jen-Fan Hsu, Chih-Yi Lai, Chiung-Ru J Pathol Transl Med Review In Taiwan, thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine gland malignancy and the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased four-fold in the past two decades. Fine-needle aspiration is an accurate and cost-effective method of evaluating thyroid nodules and has been the gold-standard diagnostic tool for thyroid tumors in Taiwan since the 1980s. This article reviews the history, current practice, reporting systems, training, and quality assurance for thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology in Taiwan. The Korean Society of Pathologists and the Korean Society for Cytopathology 2017-11 2017-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5700883/ /pubmed/29046515 http://dx.doi.org/10.4132/jptm.2017.09.20 Text en © 2017 The Korean Society of Pathologists/The Korean Society for Cytopathology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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