Chapter
Diagnostic Studies in Surgery
Abstract
Making a surgical diagnosis is an important first step in clinical management. Using the example of diagnostic tests on a thyroid nodule, a literature search identified an article in which the TIRADS (Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System) for Ultrasound (US) features of thyroid nodule was followed by US-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAB) reported by the Bethesda System for reporting thyroid cytopathology. From these two tests, …
Authors
Xie M; Archibald S; Thoma A; Gupta MK; Murphy J; Goldsmith CH
Book title
Evidence-Based Surgery
Pagination
pp. 235-253
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2025
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-87083-5_21