Core Needle Biopsy in Suspicious Malignant Thyroid Nodules with Repeated Nondiagnostic Fine Needle Aspiration

Overview

Journal Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

Publisher Springer

Date 2022 Dec 1

PMID 36452564

Authors

Farrokh Heidari

Firouzeh Heidari

Mohammad Sadeq Najafi

Reza Ansari

Kayvan Aghazadeh

Saeed Sohrabpour

Ebrahim Karimi

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Abstract

Key Message:

Abstract: Usefulness of preoperative tissue sampling and pathology diagnoses in thyroid tumors were accepted worldwide. We investigate the role of Core needle biopsy (CNB) in the thyroid nodules lesions when FNA results are nondiagnostic. We conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate twenty-six CNBs results of suspicious malignant thyroid nodules with nondiagnostic repeated fine needle aspiration. 25 from 26 CNBs were diagnostic. Twenty-one needle biopsy reports were papillary thyroid carcinoma, three CNB samples diagnosed medullary thyroid carcinoma and one of them had anaplastic results. All diagnostic needle biopsies results were compatible with final pathology. Our study would suggest CNB a safe and efficient method for investigating thyroid nodules while repeated FNA yielded nondiagnostic results.

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