Prognostic Significance of Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology Features in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

National Taiwan University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Thyroid Neoplasms

Treatments

Procedure: Fine needle aspiration of the thyroid

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00459459

200704016R

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between prognosis and fine needle aspiration cytology character of papillary thyroid cancer.

Full description

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancy worldwide. The influence of clinicopathologic features on prognosis has been examined, but the relationship between cytologic features obtained by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and prognosis has been minimally studied. We retrospectively studied the cytologic features with computerized morphometry in 83 patients with usual-type papillary thyroid cancer and followed them for more than 10 years except for one with metastasis at diagnosis. The cytologic features of FNA and recurrence of cancer were examined statistically.

Sex

All

Ages

10 to 90 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria