Thyroid Lesions – Cytodiagnosis by Fine Needle Aspiration and Non-Aspiration Cytology - Study of 3934 Cases
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All thyroid nodules are not cancer and the fine needle aspiration cytology is an accepted cost effective simple method for screening the nodules for malignancy. A three-year study of thyroid lesions (March 2012 to march 2015) with aspiration and nonaspiration cytology for each. The main purpose of the study was to detect the prevalence of carcinoma by cytology and quality assessment of non -aspiration over aspiration cytology. The main findings of the study are non-aspiration technique is diagnostically much superior than aspiration techniques. Prevalence of carcinoma by cytology is 5.6%.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017