Value of preoperative fine needle puncture cytology in the diagnosis of highly malignant thyroid tumors
Pimpl, W.; Rieger, R.; Winkler, J.; Boeckl, O.; Galvan, G.
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 102(9): 244-247
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5325 PMID: 2375109 Document Number: 367491
Highly malignant thyroid tumours are frequently diagnosed only at an advanced stage where radical resection is no longer feasible. By the wide application of fine needle aspiration biopsy as a diagnostic tool in nodular thyroid diseases occasionally early stages of these tumours can be diagnosed. Despite early detection in 23% of our patients with anaplastic carcinomas and sarcomas of the thyroid gland and subsequent radical resection an improvement in the long-term outcome was not achieved. In contrast, thyroidectomy and appropriate oncologial therapy may result in long-term survival of patients with early stages of thyroid lymphomas.