title: Management of thyroid disease: with particular reference to thyroid nodules.
abstract: A host of expensive thyroid tests and operations could be avoided if aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules were more widely accepted by American physicians. The procedure is both an accurate diagnostic tool and an effective treatment of many thyroid nodules.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000601:surgery; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013965:Thyroidectomy