Some notes about the relationship between cytological diagnosis by fine needle aspiration biopsy method with tissue diagnosis and clinical symptoms of normal thyroid pathology
- Author:
Nguyen Van Thanh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Thyroid pathology
- MeSH:
Diagnosis;
Biopsy, Fine-Needle;
Thyroid Gland
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2004;494(11):42-44
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
216 patients with normal functional thyroid pathology were treated at Hospital No 108 in 2000-2003 year period. For study the relationship between clinical symptoms, 44 cases underwent a biopsy with fine needle aspiration and were diagnosed as simple thyroid goiter, 162 cases had got cytological diagnosis as thyroid goiter, 8 cases as suspect of thyroid cancer. Clinical feature of 2 patients who had got fine needle aspiration cell biopsy had confirmed thyroid cancer.
