Comparison of Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytopathology with Histopathological Examination of the Thyroid Gland in Patients Undergoing Elective Thyroid Surgery: Do We Still Need Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytopathology?
Oskar GąsiorowskiJerzy LeszczyńskiJoanna KaszczewskaKamil StępkowskiPiotr KaszczewskiMaksymilian BaryłaZbigniew GałązkaPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
Due to many factors, FNAC may lead to over- or under-diagnosis, increasing the chances of complications associated with the selected treatment. However, we do not have any other more accurate tools; therefore, FNAC should still remain as the gold standard of preliminary examination.