thyroid frozens

We get a lot of thyroid frozens on lobectomy specimens performed at my institution. These tend to be done regardless of FNA result (many cases benign), and in some cases no FNA may even have been done. This raises question of cost effectiveness, but we have been happy to oblige given the few cases we may be helpful and save an additional surgery. The result of this is that thyroids have become are biggest frozen discordance. We have a handful of cases in which frozen showed no obvious... thyroid frozens
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