The impact of implementation of the bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology on the quality of reporting, "risk" of malignancy, surgical rate, and rate of frozen sections requested for thyroid lesions

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 315-321

  Crowe, Amanda ^a   Linder, Ami ^a   Hameed, Omar ^a   Salih, Chura ^a   Roberson, Janie ^a   Gidley, Jonathon ^a   Eltoum, Isam A ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Fine needle aspiration; Pathology report; Risk of malignancy; Thyroid Bethesda system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BETHESDA SYSTEM FOR REPORTING THYROID CYTOPATHOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84856397016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.20174     Document Type: Article

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