Surgery
Volume 144, Issue 6 , Pages 963-969 , December 2008

Reliability of benign fine needle aspiration cytology of large thyroid nodules

  • John R. Porterfield Jr., MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: John R. Porterfield Jr, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294.
    • Affiliation at time of research.
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  • Clive S. Grant, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • Diana S. Dean, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • Geoffrey B. Thompson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • David R. Farley, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • Melanie L. Richards, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • Carl C. Reading, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • J. William Charboneau, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • Brenda K. Vollrath, RN

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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  • Thomas J. Sebo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn

,Accepted 23 September 2008.

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 Presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Monterey, California, April 6–8, 2008.

PII: S0039-6060(08)00592-8

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.09.006

Surgery
Volume 144, Issue 6 , Pages 963-969 , December 2008

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