Because cytology cannot always accurately discriminate between benign and malignant follicular thyroid tumours, patients displaying a follicular thyroid lesion are advised to undergo surgery ...

Fine-needle aspiration cytology is used to diagnose thyroid cancer and determine the risk of malignancy, but some nodules have indeterminate cytology and thus invasive surgery might be required ...

Often the FNA cytology information can be augmented by submitting the material for flow cytometry or immunoperoxidase staining [Section-3 H8]. Any thyroid tissue in a lateral neck node is thyroid ...