Jennifer L Sauter, Heidi Lehrke, Xiaotun Zhang, Osamah T Al Badri, Rene Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Danae A Delivanis, Naykky Singh Ospina, Diane Donegan, Oksana Hamidi, Nicole Iñiguez-Ariza, Anu Sharma, Nana Esi N Kittah, Shrikant U Tamhane, Maria D Hurtado Andrade, Anupam Kotwal, Sarah M Jenkins, Grant Spears, Michael Rivera, Diana S Dean, Michael R Henry
OBJECTIVES: Long-term follow-up is important for determining performance characteristics of thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA). METHODS: Histologic or 3 or more years of clinical follow-up was used to calculate performance characteristics of thyroid FNA before and after implementation of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC). The impact of noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP) classification was also investigated...
September 9, 2019: American Journal of Clinical Pathology