Clinicians have become reliant on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. We encountered several patients who had thyroid cancer at operation despite having had ...

Thyroid nodules are mostly benign lesions within the thyroid, with a small percentage being malignant. The decision for surgery is mainly based on the fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology report, ...

Although FNA biopsy is an important preoperative test for thyroid nodules, it does not provide a definitive diagnosis in up to a third of patients: those with indeterminate thyroid nodules.

If a nodule is hyperfunctioning, it will absorb more radioactive material than normal thyroid tissue does. A fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a type of biopsy that involves drawing cells from the ...

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.

Another test called an uptake scan can be done at the same time to see how well your thyroid gland is working.A thyroid ultrasound to see the number and size of nodules. You may have a fine-needle ...

Telling the difference between benign and cancerous thyroid nodules before surgery is notoriously challenging, but a new ...