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grandmother had thyrotoxicosis, developed SAT in March 1998. The diagnosis was verified by fine-needle aspiration with cytological examination (fig. 1 ). She was given glucocorticoids and needed these for 1 year. In September 1998, her serum TSH level was
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border was well defined, and its margin showed a broccoli-like growth pattern. Based on US findings (Fig. 1 a, b), we initially suspected thyroid lymphoma [ 5 ]; however, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) findings revealed the benign cytological
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X-ray was suspicious for pulmonary nodules and this was confirmed by dedicated CT imaging of the chest, which also demonstrated a multinodular goiter. Thyroid ultrasound showed multiple nodules and a fine-needle aspiration of one of the dominant
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practice, thyroid nodules are being discovered with increasing frequency. Thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is the most accurate test for determining malignancy and is an integral part of current thyroid nodule evaluation procedures ( 2
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patients underwent fine-needle aspiration of the nodule. Bethesda categories (I–VI) were used to describe the cytopathological diagnosis ( 15 ). A histologically verified diagnosis, according to the WHO classification ( 16 ), was obtained in all patients
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cancer’ ( 13 ). Pre-operative assessment for surgical stratification commonly includes ultrasound (US) and fine needle aspiration (FNA), but these are highly subjective measures with wide variability in completeness and interpretation across
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the assessment of thyroid nodules. This, combined with fine-needle aspiration, is helpful in pre-surgical assessment of thyroid nodules and neck lymph nodes and post-surgery in the assessment for recurrent thyroid cancer in these patients. The
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bilateral tender lymphadenopathy, worse on the left. Oral cavity and nasoendoscopy examination were unremarkable. Fine-needle aspiration of the left cervical lymph node showed a predominantly neutrophilic infiltrate compatible with acute inflammation
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in both the lobes. She was clinically euthyroid. X-ray of the left digit showed multiple lytic lesions in the terminal phalanx. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the thyroid revealed follicular carcinoma. Biopsy from the growth in the little
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supraclavear node compartments were evaluated for the presence of suspicious disease recurrence or persistence. In suspicious lymph node metastases, a fine-needle aspiration biopsy with Tg measurement in the needle washout was performed. 131 I