Predictive factors of malignancy in thyroid nodules with a cytological diagnosis of follicular neoplasm

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 177-183

  Lee, Seong Hyeon ^a   Baek, Jeong Su ^a   Lee, Joo Young ^a   Lim, Jung Ah ^b   Cho, Soo Youn ^a   Lee, Tae Hyun ^a   Ku, Yun Hyi ^a   Kim, Hong Il ^a   Kim, Min Joo ^a  

^a Korea Cancer Center Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Eulji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fine needle biopsy; Follicular thyroid cancer; Papillary thyroid cancer; Thyroid neoplasms; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR TUMOR; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84888204374     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: 15590097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-013-9263-x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Davies L, Welch HG (2006) Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer in the United States, 1973-2002. JAMA 295:2164-2167.
2. Liu S, Semenciw R, Ugnat AM, Mao Y (2001) Increasing thyroid cancer incidence in Canada, 1970-1996: time trends and age-period-cohort effects. Br J Cancer 85:1335-1339.
3. Mazzaferri EL (1993) Management of a solitary thyroid nodule. N Engl J Med 328:553-559.
4. Cibas ES, Ali SZ (2009) The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology. Thyroid 19:1159-1165.
5. Baloch ZW, LiVolsi VA, Asa SL, Rosai J, Merino MJ, Randolph G, Vielh P, DeMay RM, Sidawy MK, Frable WJ (2008) Diagnostic terminology and morphologic criteria for cytologic diagnosis of thyroid lesions: a synopsis of the National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration State of the Science Conference. Diagn Cytopathol 36:425-437.
6. Bongiovanni M, Spitale A, Faquin WC, Mazzucchelli L, Baloch ZW (2012) The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: a meta-analysis. Acta Cytol 56:333-339.
7. DeMay RM (2000) Follicular lesions of the thyroid. W(h)ither follicular carcinoma? Am J Clin Pathol 114:681-683
8. LiVolsi VA, Baloch ZW (2011) Follicular-patterned tumors of the thyroid: the battle of benign vs. malignant vs. so-called uncertain. Endocr Pathol 22:184-189
9. Cooper DS, Doherty GM, Haugen BR, Kloos RT, Lee SL, Mandel SJ, Mazzaferri EL, McIver B, Pacini F, Schlumberger M, Sherman SI, Steward DL, Tuttle RM (2009) Revised American Thyroid Association management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid 19:1167-1214.
10. Petric R, Perhavec A, Gazic B, Besic N (2012) Preoperative serum thyroglobulin concentration is an independent predictive factor of malignancy in follicular neoplasms of the thyroid gland. J Surg Oncol 105:351-356.
11. Tuttle RM, Lemar H, Burch HB (1998) Clinical features associated with an increased risk of thyroid malignancy in patients with follicular neoplasia by fine-needle aspiration. Thyroid 8:377-383.
12. Lubitz CC, Faquin WC, Yang J, Mekel M, Gaz RD, Parangi S, Randolph GW, Hodin RA, Stephen AE (2010) Clinical and cytological features predictive of malignancy in thyroid follicular neoplasms. Thyroid 20:25-31.
13. Castro MR, Espiritu RP, Bahn RS, Henry MR, Gharib H, Caraballo PJ, Morris JC (2011) Predictors of malignancy in patients with cytologically suspicious thyroid nodules. Thyroid 21:1191-1198.
14. Lee EK, Chung KW, Min HS, Kim TS, Kim TH, Ryu JS, Jung YS, Kim SK, Lee YJ (2012) Preoperative serum thyroglobulin as a useful predictive marker to differentiate follicular thyroid cancer from benign nodules in indeterminate nodules. J Korean Med Sci 27:1014-1018.
15. Kihara M, Hirokawa M, Ito Y, Kobayashi K, Miya A, Miyauchi A (2011) Final pathology findings after immediate or delayed surgery in patients with cytologically benign or follicular thyroid nodules. World J Surg 35:558-562.
16. Kihara M, Ito Y, Hirokawa M, Masuoka H, Yabuta T, Tomoda C, Higashiyama T, Inoue H, Fukushima M, Takamura Y, Kobayashi K, Miya A, Miyauchi A (2011) Role of ultrasonography in patients with cytologically follicular thyroid tumor. Auris Nasus Larynx 38:508-511.
17. Kelman AS, Rathan A, Leibowitz J, Burstein DE, Haber RS (2001) Thyroid cytology and the risk of malignancy in thyroid nodules: importance of nuclear atypia in indeterminate specimens. Thyroid 11:271-277.
18. Bartolazzi A, Orlandi F, Saggiorato E, Volante M, Arecco F, Rossetto R, Palestini N, Ghigo E, Papotti M, Bussolati G, Martegani MP, Pantellini F, Carpi A, Giovagnoli MR, Monti S, Toscano V, Sciacchitano S, Pennelli GM, Mian C, Pelizzo MR, Rugge M, Troncone G, Palombini L, Chiappetta G, Botti G, Vecchione A, Bellocco R (2008) Galectin-3-expression analysis in the surgical selection of follicular thyroid nodules with indeterminate fine-needle aspiration cytology: a prospective multicentre study. Lancet Oncol 9:543-549.
19. Franco C, Martinez V, Allamand JP, Medina F, Glasinovic A, Osorio M, Schachter D (2009) Molecular markers in thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy: a prospective study. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 17:211-215.
20. Sanchez N, Selvaggi SM (2006) Utility of cell blocks in the diagnosis of thyroid aspirates. Diagn Cytopathol 34:89-92.
21. Curado MP, Edwards B, Shin HR, Storm H, Ferlay J, Heanue M, Boyle P (2010) Cancer incidence in five continents. Vol. IX IARC Scientific Publication No. 160. Lyon: IARC
22. Kim ES, Nam-Goong IS, Gong G, Hong SJ, Kim WB, Shong YK (2003) Postoperative findings and risk for malignancy in thyroid nodules with cytological diagnosis of the so-called "follicular neoplasm". Korean J Intern Med 18:94-97
23. Yim JH, Kim EY, Kim WG, Kim TY, Gong G, Hong SJ, Kim WB, Shong YK (2010) Postoperative findings of the cytological diagnosis of follicular neoplasm or hürthle cell neoplasm and the risk of malignancy. Endocrinol Metab 25:316-320.
24. Yang J, Schnadig V, Logrono R, Wasserman PG (2007) Fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: a study of 4703 patients with histologic and clinical correlations. Cancer 111:306-315.
25. Nagataki S, Nystrom E (2002) Epidemiology and primary prevention of thyroid cancer. Thyroid 12:889-896.
26. Kurian EM, Dawlett M, Wang J, Gong Y, Guo M (2012) The triage efficacy of fine needle aspiration biopsy for follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma using the Bethesda reporting guidelines. Diagn Cytopathol 40 Suppl 1:E69-73.
27. Gulcelik NE, Gulcelik MA, Kuru B (2008) Risk of malignancy in patients with follicular neoplasm: predictive value of clinical and ultrasonographic features. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 134:1312-1315.
28. Sahin M, Gursoy A, Tutuncu NB, Guvener DN (2006) Prevalence and prediction of malignancy in cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 65:514-518.
29. Roti E, degli Uberti EC, Bondanelli M, Braverman LE (2008) Thyroid papillary microcarcinoma: a descriptive and meta-analysis study. Eur J Endocrinol 159:659-673.
30. Cochand-Priollet B, Dahan H, Laloi-Michelin M, Polivka M, Saada M, Herman P, Guillausseau PJ, Hamzi L, Pote N, Sarfati E, Wassef M, Combe H, Raulic-Raimond D, Chedin P, Medeau V, Casanova D, Kania R (2011) Immunocytochemistry with cytokeratin 19 and anti-human mesothelial cell antibody (HBME1) increases the diagnostic accuracy of thyroid fine-needle aspirations: preliminary report of 150 liquid-based fine-needle aspirations with histological control. Thyroid 21:1067-1073.
31. Fadda G, Rossi ED, Raffaelli M, Pontecorvi A, Sioletic S, Morassi F, Lombardi CP, Zannoni GF, Rindi G (2011) Follicular thyroid neoplasms can be classified as low- and high-risk according to HBME-1 and Galectin-3 expression on liquid-based fine-needle cytology. Eur J Endocrinol 165:447-453.
32. Alexander EK, Kennedy GC, Baloch ZW, Cibas ES, Chudova D, Diggans J, Friedman L, Kloos RT, LiVolsi VA, Mandel SJ, Raab SS, Rosai J, Steward DL, Walsh PS, Wilde JI, Zeiger MA, Lanman RB, Haugen BR (2012) Preoperative diagnosis of benign thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology. N Engl J Med 367:705-715.