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A Needle Biopsy Would be Quickest
Author(s) -
Macintosh P. K.,
Thomson K. R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb131485.x
Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , radiology , thyroid , adenoma , pathology
A case of a benign intrathoracic thyroid adenoma which was biopsied percutaneously is described. Except for a routine posterior‐anterior (PA) and lateral chest X‐ray examination, no preliminary investigations were performed. This resulted in several unnecessary procedures.