Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of benign thyroid nodules: An evidence-based review

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1247-1252

  Lundgren, Catharina Ihre ^a   Zedenius, Jan ^a   Skoog, Lambert ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; HUMANS; SWEDEN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 45849128321     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9578-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (45)

1. Gharib H, Goellner JR (1993) Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid: an appraisal. Ann Intern Med 118:282-289
2. Pope D, Ramesh H, Gennari R et al (2006) Pre-operative assessment of cancer in the elderly (PACE): a comprehensive assessment of underlying characteristics of elderly cancer patients prior to elective surgery. Surg Oncol 15:189-197
3. Cooper DS, Doherty GM, Haugen BR et al (2006) Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid 16:109-142
4. Hegedus L (2004) Clinical practice. The thyroid nodule. N Engl J Med 351:1764-1771
5. Moon HG, Jung EJ, Park ST et al (2007) Role of ultrasonography in predicting malignancy in patients with thyroid nodules. World J Surg 31:1410-1416
6. Shimura H, Haraguchi K, Hiejima Y et al (2005) Distinct diagnostic criteria for ultrasonographic examination of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a multicenter study. Thyroid 15:251-258
7. Solymosi T, Toth GL, Bodo M (2001) Diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology of the thyroid: impact of ultrasonography and ultrasonographically guided aspiration. Acta Cytol 45:669-674
8. Roh JL (2006) Intrathyroid hemorrhage and acute upper airway obstruction after fine needle aspiration of the thyroid gland. Laryngoscope 116:154-156
9. Gharib H, Goellner JR, Johnson DA (1993) Fine-needle aspiration cytology of the thyroid. A 12-year experience with 11,000 biopsies. Clin Lab Med 13:699-709
10. Castro MR, Gharib H (2003) Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy: progress, practice, and pitfalls. Endocr Pract 9:128-136
11. Gharib H (1994) Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules: advantages, limitations, and effect. Mayo Clin Proc 69:44-49
12. Sackett DL (1989) Rules of evidence and clinical recommendations on the use of antithrombotic agents. Chest 95(2 Suppl):2S-4S
13. Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM, Gray JA et al (2007) Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. Clin Orthop Relat Res 455:3-5
14. Haddadi-Nezhad S, Larijani B, Tavangar SM et al (2003) Comparison of fine-needle-nonaspiration with fine-needle-aspiration technique in the cytologic studies of thyroid nodules. Endocr Pathol 14:369-373
15. Tangpricha V, Chen BJ, Swan NC et al (2001) Twenty-one-gauge needles provide more cellular samples than twenty-five-gauge needles in fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid but may not provide increased diagnostic accuracy. Thyroid 11:973-976
16. Ljung BM, Drejet A, Chiampi N et al (2001) Diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration biopsy is determined by physician training in sampling technique. Cancer 93:263-268
17. Cappelli C, Agosti B, Camoni R et al (2001) [Thyroid nodule pathology: proposal of a diagnostic approach based on the experience of a thyroid disease unit]. Chir Ital 53:645-652
18. Hall TL, Layfield LJ, Philippe A et al (1989) Sources of diagnostic error in fine needle aspiration of the thyroid. Cancer 63:718-725
19. Chao TC, Lin JD, Chao HH et al (2007) Surgical treatment of solitary thyroid nodules via fine-needle aspiration biopsy and frozen-section analysis. Ann Surg Oncol 14:712-718
20. Sidawy MK, Del Vecchio DM, Knoll SM (1997) Fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: correlation between cytology and histology and evaluation of discrepant cases. Cancer 81:253-259
21. Bakshi NA, Mansoor I, Jones BA (2003) Analysis of inconclusive fine-needle aspiration of thyroid follicular lesions. Endocr Pathol 14:167-175
22. Mayall F, Denford A, Chang B et al (1998) Improved FNA cytology results with a near patient diagnosis service for non-breast lesions. J Clin Pathol 51:541-544
23. Kocjan G (2003) Fine needle aspiration cytology. Cytopathology 14:307-308
24. Nguyen GK, Lee MW, Ginsberg J et al (2005) Fine-needle aspiration of the thyroid: an overview. Cytojournal 2:12
25. Singh N, Ryan D, Berney D et al (2003) Inadequate rates are lower when FNAC samples are taken by cytopathologists. Cytopathology 14:327-331
26. Pacini F, Schlumberger M, Dralle H et al (2006) European consensus for the management of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma of the follicular epithelium. Eur J Endocrinol 154:787-803
27. Greig EG, Gray ACH (1904) Note on lymphatic gland in sleeping sickness. Lancet 1:1570
28. Martin H, Ellis E (1934) Aspiration biopsy. Surg Gynecol Obstet 59:578
29. Lowhagen T, Granberg PO, Lundell G et al (1979) Aspiration biopsy cytology (ABC) in nodules of the thyroid gland suspected to be malignant. Surg Clin North Am 59:3-18
30. Hadi M, Gharib H, Goellner JR et al (1997) Has fine-needle aspiration biopsy changed thyroid practice? Endocr Pract 3:9-13
31. Mazzaferri EL (1993) Management of a solitary thyroid nodule. N Engl J Med 328:553-559
32. Alexander EK, Heering JP, Benson CB et al (2002) Assessment of nondiagnostic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspirations of thyroid nodules. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:4924-4927
33. Block MA, Dailey GE, Robb JA (1983) Thyroid nodules indeterminate by needle biopsy. Am J Surg 146:72-78
34. Werga P, Wallin G, Skoog L et al (2000) Expanding role of fine-needle aspiration cytology in thyroid diagnosis and management. World J Surg 24:907-912
35. Yang J, Schnadig V, Logrono R et al (2007) Fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: a study of 4703 patients with histologic and clinical correlations. Cancer 111:306-315
36. Kudo T, Miyauchi A, Ito Y et al (2007) Diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma by calcitonin measurement in fine-needle aspiration biopsy specimens. Thyroid 17:635-638
37. Zajicek J (1974) Introduction to aspiration biopsy. Monogr Clin Cytol 4:1-211
38. Stanley MW, Löwhagen T (1993) Fine needle aspiration of palpable masses. Butterworth-Heineman, Boston, 151 pp
39. Wang HH (2006) Reporting thyroid fine-needle aspiration: literature review and a proposal. Diagn Cytopathol 34:67-76
40. Redman R, Yoder BJ, Massoll NA (2006) Perceptions of diagnostic terminology and cytopathologic reporting of fine-needle aspiration biopsies of thyroid nodules: a survey of clinicians and pathologists. Thyroid 16:1003-1008
41. Sack MJ, Astengo-Osuna C, Lin BT et al (1997) HBME-1 immunostaining in thyroid fine-needle aspirations: a useful marker in the diagnosis of carcinoma. Mod Pathol 10:668-674
42. Tani E, Skoog L (1989) Fine needle aspiration cytology and immunocytochemistry in the diagnosis of lymphoid lesions of the thyroid gland. Acta Cytol 33:48-52
43. Kjellman P, Wallin G, Hoog A et al (2003) MIB-1 index in thyroid tumors: a predictor of the clinical course in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid 13:371-380
44. Sapio MR, Posca D, Raggioli A et al (2007) Detection of RET/PTC, TRK and BRAF mutations in preoperative diagnosis of thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytological findings. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 66:678-683
45. Foukakis T, Gusnanto A, Au AY et al (2007) A PCR-based expression signature of malignancy in follicular thyroid tumors. Endocr Relat Cancer 14:381-391