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Successful sonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a 1-millimeter-diameter papillary thyroid
1Department of Radiology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, 633-165 Gaegeum-dong, Busanjin-gu, Busan, South Korea. dwultra@lycos.co.kr
AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology
|November 28, 2009
Abstract:
A PTMC is defined as a thyroid papillary cancer that measures < or =10 mm in the greatest diameter. The detection rate for a PTMC has increased because of the worldwide use of high-resolution sonography and US-FNAB. We report a case of a 1-mm-diameter PTMC confirmed at thyroidectomy for which the cytologic diagnosis had an important role in deciding the extent of surgery (ie, either a total thyroidectomy or a hemithyroidectomy).