SynthesisFrontiers in endocrinology2020
Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy of Thyroid Cancer With Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration and Core-Needle Biopsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- An In-Depth Evaluation of CD15 Expression in Thyroid Carcinoma: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Pooled it
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- Diagnostic Accuracy of Fine-Needle Biopsy in the Detection of Thyroid Malignancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA surgery · 2022Pooled it
- Beyond Size: Integrating Ultrasonographic Features and FNAB Cytology to Predict Thyroid Malignancy-A Retrospective, Single-Center Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Machine-learning-based tumor segmentation and classification using dynamic optical contrast imaging for thyroid cancer.Biophotonics discovery · 2026Article
- Personalized risk prediction of lateral lymph node metastasis in male papillary thyroid cancer: a sex-specific model leveraging central lymph node ratio.Future oncology (London, England) · 2025Article
- A novel hybrid deep learning and chaotic dynamics approach for thyroid cancer classification.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and willingness of patients with thyroid diseases toward thyroid thermal ablation techniques.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Integrated intraoperative predictive model for malignancy risk assessment of thyroid nodules with atypia of undetermined significance cytology.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Value of a BRAFFrontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Comparative accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology between larger and smaller size thyroid nodules.CytoJournal · 2025Article
- Minimally invasive biopsy-based diagnostics in support of precision cancer medicine.Molecular oncology · 2024Review
- Role of ultrasound‑guided fine‑needle aspiration cytology combined with thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies in evaluating cervical lymph node metastasis in thyroid cancer.Oncology letters · 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
- Core needle biopsy: an efficacious adjunct to cytological diagnosis in thyroid tumours suspected of anaplastic carcinoma - single-centre experience.Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland) · 2024Article
- Advances in photoacoustic imaging aided by nano contrast agents: special focus on role of lymphatic system imaging for cancer theranostics.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2023Review
- Molecular testing raises thyroid nodule fine needle aspiration diagnostic value.Endocrine connections · 2023Article
- 2022 Taiwan clinical multicenter expert consensus and recommendations for thyroid radiofrequency ablation.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Article
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Abstract
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and core-needle biopsy (CNB) in diagnosing thyroid cancer. The PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were retrieved up to May 2019, and the overall accuracy of FNA and CNB in diagnosing thyroid cancer was evaluated by meta-analysis. The sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), and negative likelihood ratio (NLR) were calculated. The summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was estimated, and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was calculated. Ten eligible studies, involving 10,078 patients with 10,842 thyroid nodules, were included. The overall sensitivity and specificity of FNA and CNB for thyroid cancer were 0.72 [95 % confidence interval (CI): 0.69-0.74], 0.99 (95% CI: 0.98-0.99), and 0.83 (95% CI: 0.81-0.85), 0.99 (95% CI: 0.98-0.99), respectively. Other parameters used to assess efficacy included PLR 41.71 (2.15-808.27) and 51.56 (3.20-841.47), NLR 0.31 (0.22-0.42) and 0.22 (0.15-0.32), for FNA and CNB, respectively. Overall, the pooled summary ROC (AUC) value of FNA and CNB was 0.9025 and 0.7926, respectively. No significant difference was observed between the two AUCs of FNA and CNB (
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