Background: Widespread use of ultrasound to assess thyroid disease has ... were carcinomas (50 papillary, 15 follicular, and 2 medullary) and 41 were adenomas. Extracapsular growth was present ...

Objective: Conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for cystic thyroid nodules ... diagnosis was benign nodule in 42 cases, predominantly follicular lesion in 50 cases, and suspicious ...