Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Nodular thyroid disease is a common problem in clinical practice. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has become the principal test in the diagnosis of nodular thyroid disease. However, sometimes the information provided by this procedure is not definitive as it happens in those cases where the cytologic specimens are suspicious or indeterminate and a clear cytologic diagnosis can not be made. Based on that, we therefore undertook a study to investigate the histological...