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The impact of needle biopsy on the diagnosis of the thyroid nodule

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Book cover Diagnosis and Management of Endocrine-related Tumors

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 20))

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Management of the patient with a thyroid nodule has been the subject of debate for many years. The essential question for any given nodule is whether the risk of cancer is great enough to justify the risk of surgical treatment. Granted the risks are very small when operations are performed by expert thyroid surgeons in first rate hospitals. Nevertheless, even these small risks must be justified when one is dealing with a problem which is as common as thryoid nodules, especially since most thyroid nodules are benign, most of those which are malignant are not very agressive, and the few highly lethal are almost always incurable by surgical methods.

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  1. Division of Endocrinology, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 17033, P.O. Box 850, Hershey, PA, USA

    Richard J. Santen M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Chief) & Andrea Manni M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine, Chief) &  (Associate Professor of Medicine)

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Hamburger, J.I., Miller, J.M., Kini, S.R. (1984). The impact of needle biopsy on the diagnosis of the thyroid nodule. In: Santen, R.J., Manni, A. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Endocrine-related Tumors. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2849-0_6

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