Calcitonin measurement in fine-needle aspirate washouts vs. cytologic examination for diagnosis of primary or metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma

Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy cytology (FNAB-C) is able to detect approximately 63% of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The measurement of calcitonin in the needle washout (FNAB-CT) could improve its accuracy. Sixty-two FNAB-C were performed in 38 patients. Serum calcitonin (sCT)...

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I publikationen:Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital
Huvudupphovsmän: DE CREA, C., RAFFAELLI, M., MACCORA, D., CARROZZA, C., CANU, G., FADDA, G., BELLANTONE, R., LOMBARDI, C.P.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Pacini Editore SpA 2014
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Thyroid
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346997/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25762832
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