Effect of local anesthesia on pain scale and specimen adequacy in fine-needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules for liquid-based cytology

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 18498 - 7
• Main Authors: Lee, Tsung-Lun, Wei, Pei-Yin, Tai, Shyh-Kuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.11.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 692/163; 692/308; 692/700; Anesthesia; Anesthesia, Local; Biopsy; Biopsy, Fine-Needle - methods; Cellular biology; Cytology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Local anesthesia; multidisciplinary; Multivariate analysis; Nodules; Pain; Pain - etiology; Prospective Studies; Retrospective Studies; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sensitivity and Specificity; Thyroid; Thyroid gland; Thyroid Neoplasms - pathology; Thyroid Nodule - pathology; Trachea

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is a routine diagnostic test for thyroid nodules. The use of local anesthesia (LA) before the procedure is still controversial. This prospective study aimed to evaluate the degree of pain and specimen adequacy in liquid-based cytology (LBC) for FNAB of thyroid no...