Aspiration cytology of thyroid medullary carcinoma.
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Fine-needle aspiration cytology for medullary thyroid carcinoma: a single institutional experience in Japan.
Many cytological studies on medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) have been reported; however, such studies in large series of patients with MTC have not been performed. We investigated MTC at a single institution in Japan using fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), and aimed to establish a preoperative diagnostic algorithm for MTC. FNAC was performed in 119 of 149 patients with MTC (79.9%) who u...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1882-7233,0387-1193
DOI: 10.5795/jjscc.35.211