The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology Definitions, Criteria and Explanatory Notes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ali, Syed Z. (Editor), Cibas, Edmund S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Endocrinology.; Cancer > Surgery.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87666-5

Thyroid fine needle aspiration is one of the most commonly performed cytologic procedures and is the standard diagnostic method for managing the patient with a thyroid nodule. Until now, there has been no uniform system for reporting the results of thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) in the U.S. Th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting
• Non-Diagnostic Specimen
• Cyst Fluid Only
• Benign Cellular Changes
• Atypical Follicular Cells of Undetermined Significance (AFCUS)
• Suspicious for Follicular Neoplasm
• Suspicious for Hurthle Cell Neoplasm
• Suspicious for Malignancy
• Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma and Variants
• Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
• Poorly Differentiated Carcinomas
• Anaplastic (Undifferentiated) Carcinoma
• Metastatic Tumors and Lymphomas
• Index.