[PDF] Top 20 Insufficient Experience in Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration Leads to Misdiagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

... To decrease false negative procedures, clinicians who are new to the procedure should make every effort to verify the position of the needle tip during each FNA exam, particularly for ... See full document

... Meanwhile, in order to improve the diagnostic accuracy of thyroid FNA, new approaches including molecular analysis for somatic genetic alterations such as BRAF and RAS point mu- tations and ... See full document

... correct needle localization or collecting an adequate specimen from ‘difficult’ ...nodules. In our previous study, un- skilled operators had a higher false negative rate, and relative- ly low sensitivity ... See full document

... potential of microRNA (miR- NA) as a molecular biomarker of thyroid cancer ...cols. In this context, we are honored to know that our article has stimulated Professor Kimura’s ... See full document

... number of reported cases of secondary tumors to the thyroid, as suggested by two studies from the Mayo Clinic referring to distinct periods [1,3], is prob- ably related with routine ... See full document

... WB of ANXA1 are still in agreement with those we obtained by 2DE, and they add to many data in literature that support a possible role of annexin family in the oncogenic ... See full document

... probability of malignancy in a thyroid nodule is significantly reduced after a "negative" (no cancer suspicion) FNAB ...risk of malignancy in such cases ranges from ... See full document

... potential of microRNA (miR- NA) as a molecular biomarker of thyroid cancer ...cols. In this context, we are honored to know that our article has stimulated Professor Kimura’s ... See full document

... US. Fine-needle aspiration was performed on the nodules showing suspicious features, and if none showed any suspicious US features, FNA was performed targeting at the nodule with the largest ... See full document

... Association of Clinical Endocrinol- ogists/Associazione Medici Endocrinologi (AACE/AME) ...regardless of lesion size when patients have a his- tory of neck irradiation, a family history of ... See full document

... Uma proporção significativa dos nódulos estudados possuía pequenas dimensões (metade com diâmetro máxi- mo de 15 mm na primeira PAAF). As recomendações para PAAF de nódulos da tiroide são cada vez mais conserva- doras e ... See full document

... 0 to 4 years of age from 1979 to 1983 corresponds to the co- hort of children 5 to 9 years of age from 1984 to ...function of age bracket and the period ... See full document

... submitted to the cytopathological exam. For cytopathological analysis, samples of different points from the affected mammary glands were obtained by cyto-puncture with or without suction using hypodermic ... See full document

... effect in disease re- occurrence, with half of the patients relapsing when treated with radiotherapy alone (Small- ridge and Copland, ...Due to the recur- rence rate, cytotoxic agents such as ... See full document

... OBJECTIVE: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology is being used as a diagnostic modality for neck ...done to evaluate the role of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in ... See full document

... 71.5% of the patients with tumors < ...calculated to be 80% in this subgroup. Even with only 10–30% of the patients with tumors < ...independently of primary tumor size. A study ... See full document

... focused in nucleic acid isolation from tissue samples sto- red for long periods and their utilization on molecular biomarkers ...modiications in macromolecules (1) that result in a laborious and ... See full document

... reduction of 96.9%. Interestingly, we verified that the amount of residual disease, either complete (R0 and R1) or incomplete (R2) surgery, did not affect ...dose of >45 Gy provided a longer ... See full document

... seen in younger adults, particularly those 40 to 50 years of age, with a very high female to male ra- ...observed in this study in likely attributed to a delay in ... See full document

... up-regulation of mTOR pathway (25), suggesting that this effect is not tumor-type ...higher in cPTC, although with a preferential cytoplasmic localization. In fact, a decrease in PTEN nuclear ... See full document