Does large needle aspiration biopsy add pain to the thyroid nodule evaluation?

Thyroid large needle aspiration biopsy is disregarded because it is thought to be associated with pain. This is in contrast with our 32 years long experience. We surveyed reports of pain in patients examined with fine needle aspiration biopsy (78, 87.2% women, mean age 59 years) or FNAB+large needle...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:PLoS ONE
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Angelo Carpi, Giuseppe Rossi, Andrea Nicolini, Giorgio Iervasi, Matteo Russo, Jeffrey Mechanick
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3594218?pdf=render