Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.

Objective: Conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for cystic thyroid nodules (CTNs) has a high rate of nondiagnostic and false-negative results. Ultrasound-guided FNAB (UG-FNAB ...

Blood tests are also used to monitor thyroid cancers. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the most useful test for determining if a thyroid mass is cancerous or not. This simple outpatient ...

While both are called medullary carcinoma, these cancers differ in many ways: ...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common ... clues to decide how much of a problem they are. Biopsy. Your doctor will use a very fine needle to take a sample of the nodule to test for ...

Partial thyroidectomy involves the surgical removal of one lobe of the thyroid gland ... and suspicion of thyroid carcinoma after fine-needle aspiration biopsy; all of the operations were ...

Medically reviewed by Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD Thyroid nodules are lumps (growths) made up of abnormal cell clusters that ...