Abstract

PEREIRA DESPAIGNE, Olga Lidia et al. Diagnosis of the thyroid nodular disorders. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.6, pp.788-796. ISSN 1029-3019.

In spite of the advances in the diagnosis means, the identification of the malignant nodules of the thyroid continues being a challenge for the pathologists, endocrinologist and surgeons. Although the prognosis factors, the use of the clinical method and the imagenological and functional studies can contribute to the diagnosis; their main key stone is constituted by the cytological study through fine needle aspiration, the frozen intraoperative biopsy and the paraffin inclusion biopsy. In this respect, some considerations related to the diagnosis of the thyroid nodule are offered in this work

Keywords : thyroid nodule; thyroid cancer; fine needle aspiration biopsy; frozen biopsy.

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