Improving risk assessment in indeterminate pediatric thyroid FNA biopsies.

Cancer Cytopathol

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

Published: May 2022

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