Endocrinol Metab.  2014 Dec;29(4):590-591. 10.3803/EnM.2014.29.4.590.

Letter: Insufficient Experience in Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration Leads to Misdiagnosis of Thyroid Cancer (Endocrinol Metab 2014;29:293-9, Jung Il Son et al.)

Affiliations
  • 1Laboratory of Liver Research, Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.
  • 2Department of Internal Medicine and Laboratory of Genomic and Translational Medicine, Gachon University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea. shleemd@gachon.ac.kr

Abstract

No abstract available.


MeSH Terms

Biopsy, Fine-Needle*
Diagnostic Errors*
Thyroid Gland*
Thyroid Neoplasms*

Reference

1. Ahn HS, Kim HJ, Welch HG. Korea's thyroid-cancer "epidemic": screening and overdiagnosis. N Engl J Med. 2014; 371:1765–1767.
2. Hyun KR, Kang S, Lee S. Cost-of-illness trends associated with thyroid disease in Korea. Endocrinol Metab (Seoul). 2014; 29:257–269.
3. Son JI, Rhee SY, Woo JT, Park WS, Byun JK, Kim YJ, Byun JM, Chin SO, Chon S, Oh S, Kim SW, Kim YS. Insufficient experience in thyroid fine-needle aspiration leads to misdiagnosis of thyroid cancer. Endocrinol Metab (Seoul). 2014; 29:293–299.
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