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Manage FNA/Biopsy Opportunities

Published on Fri Apr 12, 2013

Question: Our surgeon performed an FNA of the right thyroid, and FNA of a nodule of the right thyroid isthmus. Both specimens were inadequate for diagnosis, according to the pathologist’s intra-operative exam. The surgeon then proceeded to perform a right thyroid core biopsy and a core biopsy of the right isthmic nodule. Should we report two units of FNA and [...]
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