Perspectives in isolation of microRNA from thyroid fine-needle aspiration: reply to the letter Nucleic acid recovery from thyroid fine-needle cytology slides

Although fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of the thyroid gland is the most important presurgical proceeding in defining the malignancy of a nodular lesion, it has limitations

Using frozen RNA, obtained from cells left inside the needle used for fine needle aspiration cytology, it was possible to identify a somatic mutation (680 delA) in the

Conclusion: Two punctures in fine-needle aspiration biopsies of thyroid nodules have lead to diagnosis in 89.5% of cases in the study sample, suggesting that there is no need

In conclusion, the higher malignancy rates systematically observed in cases with nuclear atypia and its related features demonstrate that improvements in the Bethesda System for

Overall, our results demonstrated the similarity of proteomic profile of pre-surgical FNA and FNA made on surgical specimens; moreover, the previous potential biomarkers were

Pre- diction of malignancy in the solitary thyroid nodule by physical examination, thyroid scan, fine-needle biopsy and serum thyroglobulin: a prospective study of 100 sur-

Identification of occult metastases of medullary thyroid carcinoma by calcitonin measurement in washout fluid from fine needle aspiration of cervical lymph node.. Identificação

(2) contributed to show eficient methods of nucleic acid recovery from archived formalin-ixed/ pa- rafin-embedded (FFPE) and ine-needle aspiration (FNA) samples of thyroid