ArticleEndocrine2014
Patient's comfort with and tolerability of thyroid core needle biopsy.
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- Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy of Thyroid Cancer With Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration and Core-Needle Biopsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Pooled it
- Complications following ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy of thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European radiology · 2018Pooled it
- The Role of Core Needle Biopsy for Thyroid Nodules with Initially Indeterminate Results on Previous Fine-Needle Aspiration: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2017Pooled it
- Comparison of diagnostic yield of core-needle and fine-needle aspiration biopsies of thyroid lesions: Systematic review and meta-analysis.European radiology · 2017Pooled it
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- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2016Guideline
- Surgeon-performed point-of-care ultrasound and ultrasound-guided core biopsy reduce diagnostic invasiveness in primary thyroid lymphoma.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- Core needle biopsy: an efficacious adjunct to cytological diagnosis in thyroid tumours suspected of anaplastic carcinoma - single-centre experience.Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland) · 2024Article
- A comparative analysis of core needle biopsy and repeat fine needle aspiration in patients with inconclusive initial cytology of thyroid nodules.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Histology-based and cytology-based needle sampling for targeted next-generation sequencing in the indeterminate thyroid tumors.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2023Article
- Primary Thyroid Lymphoma: How Molecular Biology and Ancillary Techniques Can Help the Cytopathologist Overcome This Diagnostic Challenge.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- 2019 Practice guidelines for thyroid core needle biopsy: a report of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Development Committee of the Korean Thyroid Association.Journal of pathology and translational medicine · 2020Review
- Core-needle biopsy in thyroid nodules: performance, accuracy, and complications.European radiology · 2019Observational
- Core needle biopsy in the management of thyroid nodules with an indeterminate fine-needle aspiration report.Gland surgery · 2019Review
- Thyroid core needle biopsy: patients' pain and satisfaction compared to fine needle aspiration.Endocrine · 2019Article
- Pathological diagnosis of thyroid nodules based on core needle biopsies: comparative study between core needle biopsies and resected specimens in 578 cases.Diagnostic pathology · 2019Article
- Role of core needle biopsy as a first-line diagnostic tool for thyroid nodules: a retrospective cohort study.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2018Article
- Reliability of core needle biopsy as a second-line procedure in thyroid nodules with an indeterminate fine-needle aspiration report: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2018Article
- A Comparison of Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration versus Core Needle Biopsy for Thyroid Nodules: Pain, Tolerability, and Complications.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Recently, the core needle biopsy (CNB) has been proposed as a complementary test for thyroid nodules with inconclusive cytology by fine-needle aspiration (FNA). However, there have been no reports regarding patient comfort during and after CNB or tolerability of this procedure. Here we aimed to investigate and compare comfort with and tolerability of the CNB and FNA procedures. A 21 gauge needle was used for collection in CNB procedures, and a 23 gauge needle was used for collection in FNA procedures. Sixty-one consecutive patients underwent both biopsies and were asked to evaluate their comfort during and after these procedures by a structured questionnaire. A total of 58 (95 %) patients reported local pain during both biopsies. Two patients reported pain only during CNB, and one reported no pain. Mild pain was reported in 87 % of CNB cases. Local pain after biopsy was reported in 29 % of FNA and 45 % of CNB. The occurrence of pain in the first minutes following CNB was significantly higher than FNA (p = 0.008), while there was not a significant difference in pain at later time points after the procedures. Finally, patients were asked to evaluate the degree of tolerability of the two sampling techniques, and FNA and CNB were reported as tolerable in 82 and 83 %, respectively. The results from a questionnaire evaluating patients' comfort level showed no significant difference between the tolerability of CNB and FNA. This finding suggests that CNB may be performed with a reasonable level of patient comfort.
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