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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
7
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1996-11-5
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| pubmed:abstractText |
A greater percentage of thyroid cancers can be detected by ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (UG-FNAB) than by ordinary FNAB. A group of 678 patients were selected sequentially as having been diagnosed with benign nodules by the conventional FNAB method. We reexamined these patients by UG-FNAB and investigated the types of thyroid cancer that were missed by the conventional FNAB. Of the 678 patients diagnosed with benign nodules (using conventional FNAB), 571 (84.2%) demonstrated the same diagnosis when UG-FNAB was used. The remaining 107 patients (15.8%) studied were suspected of having a malignancy after UG-FNAB had been performed. Surgical specimen histology proved thyroid cancer in 99 of the 107 patients: 93 had papillary carcinoma, 4 had follicular carcinoma, 1 had medullary carcinoma and 1 had anaplastic carcinoma. Two drawbacks were noted when conventional FNAB was used: (1) cancer lesions difficult to palpate (n = 55) (e.g., small cancers with or without benign lesions or cancers associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis or Graves' disease); and (2) palpable cancers with insufficient cell material for analysis (n = 44) (e.g., cystic carcinoma and cancers with calcified lesions. UG-FNAB is a powerful technique for detecting microcancers, cystic carcinomas, cancers associated with benign nodules, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, or coarse calcifications.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Sep
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| pubmed:issn |
0364-2313
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
20
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
848-53; discussion 853
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Adenocarcinoma, Follicular,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Anaplasia,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Biopsy, Needle,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Calcinosis,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Carcinoma,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Carcinoma, Medullary,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Carcinoma, Papillary,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Graves Disease,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Middle Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Palpation,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Thyroid Neoplasms,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Thyroid Nodule,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Thyroidectomy,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Thyroiditis, Autoimmune,
pubmed-meshheading:8678961-Ultrasonography, Interventional
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| pubmed:year |
1996
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Thyroid cancer detected by ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Kuma Hospital, 8-2-35 Shimoyamate Dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650, Japan.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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