title: Fine needle cytologic diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Review and report of 300 cases.
abstract: Three hundred patients with thyroid nodules were evaluated with fine needle biopsy and cytologic evaluation. Nineteen of 23 cancers were diagnosed by fine needle biopsy alone, for a yield of 83 percent. Four of 300 diagnoses (1 percent) were false-positive, and the evidence of neoplasm at operation was 68 percent. We believe that fine needle biopsy will greatly decrease the number of unnecessary thyroid resections.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D005260:Female; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013966:Thyroiditis / Q000175:diagnosis