Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Iain McDougall

Publication Details

  • Needle track seeding of papillary thyroid carcinoma from fine needle aspiration biopsy. A case report.

    Karwowski JK, Nowels KW, McDougall IR, Weigel RJ. Acta Cytol. 2002 May-Jun; 46 (3): 591-5

    Dissemination of tumor cells from needle biopsy has been observed in a wide range of tumor types. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy has become accepted as the first-line test in the evaluation of thyroid nodules. Local recurrence of thyroid cancer from needle track seeding is an extremely rare complication of thyroid FNA.

    PubMedID: 12040660

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