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Liquid-based cytology improves preoperative diagnostic accuracy of the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Diagnostic cytopathology - 1 Jan 2014
Lee Sung Hak, Jung Chan Kwon, Bae Ja Seong, Jung So Lyung, Choi Yeong Jin, Kang Chang Suk
Abstract excerpt
The tall cell variant (TCV) of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common among the aggressive variants of the disease. We aimed to investigate the clinicopathologic characteristics of TCV, and evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of liquid-based cytology (LBC) in TCV detection compared with conventional smear in thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA). A total of 266 consecutive patients (220 women and 46...
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