Journal:
:acta medica iranica
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minoo saatian department of pathology, bu-ali hospital, school of medicine, azad university of tehran, tehran, iran.
banafsheh moradmand badie iranian research center for hiv/aids, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
sogol shahriari iranian research center for hiv/aids, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
fahimeh fattahi department of biology, shahed university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mehrnaz rasoolinejad iranian research center for hiv/aids, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
the fna (fine needle aspiration) procedure is simple, inexpensive, available and a safe method for the diagnosis of a neck mass. fna has numerous advantages over open surgical biopsies as an initial diagnostic tool; therefore we decided to compare the accuracy of this method with open biopsy. this retrospective as well as descriptive study comparing preoperative fna results with existing data i...
