Discriminating benign from malignant thyroid nodules in real-time using a novel probe with an integrated elastic scattering spectroscopy biopsy syringe
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University === Background. Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. The current standard of diagnosis, fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) yields indeterminate results for approximately 10–25% of biopsies, necessitating thyroidectomy for diagnosis. Elastic scatt...
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Boston University
2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12111 |