The role of thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology and the Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology

Diagnostic Histopathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 95-105

  Bongiovanni, Massimo ^a,b   Cibas, Edmund S ^c,d   Faquin, William C ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bethesda system; Classification; Cytology; Fine needle aspiration; Thyroid; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ANAPLASTIC THYROID CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BETHESDA SYSTEM FOR REPORTING THYROID CYTOPATHOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 79952185894     PISSN: 17562317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpdhp.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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