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Triage of patients with AUS/FLUS on thyroid cytopathology: effectiveness of the multimodal diagnostic techniques.
Cancer medicine - 1 May 2016
Kim Tae Hyuk, Jeong Dae Joon, Hahn Soo Yeon, Shin Jung Hee, Oh Young Lyun, Ki Chang-Seok, Kim Jong-Won, Jang Ju Young, Cho Yoon Young, Chung Jae Hoon, Kim Sun Wook
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The management of patients with thyroid cytopathologic diagnosis of atypia (or follicular lesion) of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) is a complex clinical problem. The purpose of this study was to develop a practical triage scheme based on multiple diagnostic tests in general use. We performed a retrospective cohort study involving 15,335 consecutive patients with a referral diagnosis of thyroid nodule...
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