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carcinomas (PTC). An association between HT and PTC has strongly been suggested by retrospective analyses of surgical series [ 4 - 9 ] and more recently re-evaluated in several studies carried out in consecutive patients submitted to fine-needle aspiration
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disease, is well accepted [ 1 - 3 ]. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) and, to a lesser extent, core needle biopsy (CNB), are currently recognized as the primary diagnostic methods for evaluating thyroid lesions, cervical lymph-node metastases and local
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subjected to fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and stratified according to their BMI. This selection approach should theoretically avoid the above-reported bias as well as the bias connected to surgical series where the criteria for surgery may not be
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Introduction The introduction of the Bethesda System of Reporting Thyroid Cytology (BSRTC) in 2009 provided clinicians with a standardized, category-based system for reporting the results of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of thyroid specimens
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regarding the size of the thyroid nodules during previous follow-up. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) was previously not performed. Family history was negative for thyroid malignancy. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus 5 years prior to this
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Introduction Currently available sonographic risk stratification systems for thyroid nodules were developed to more accurately identify those for which fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) can safely be deferred [ 1 - 5 ]. The likelihood
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thyroid surgery was preceded by fine-needle aspiration (FNA), suggesting less selective surgery, and the proportion of histological thyroid cancer diagnosis after total thyroidectomy was lower. Finally, in the HIR, less thyroid cancer patients had been
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recurrence ( 5 ). As such, physicians managing thyroid nodules need to identify the patients with ‘clinically significant’ carcinomas without subjecting too many people to invasive procedures i.e. fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies and thyroidectomies
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]. Moreover, US-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology is triggering an overdiagnosis of PTC, with the associated risks and harms of overtreatment [ 1 , 2 ]. It is estimated that 49% of the rising incidence of thyroid carcinomas consist of cancers measuring 1
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, remain limited ( 3 , 4 , 5 ). Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) followed by cytological examination is the standard diagnostic procedure for patients with suspicious thyroid ultrasound features. The diagnoses of most FNA samples are classified into