The Impact of Noninvasive Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma on Rates of Malignancy for Fine-Needle Aspiration Diagnostic Categories | Zendy

Kyle C. Strickland | Zendy; Brooke E. Howitt | Zendy; Ellen Marqusee | Zendy; Erik K. Alexander | Zendy; Edmund S. Cibas | Zendy; Jeffrey F. Krane | Zendy; Justine A. Barletta | Zendy

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The Impact of Noninvasive Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma on Rates of Malignancy for Fine-Needle Aspiration Diagnostic Categories

Author(s) -

Kyle C. Strickland,

Brooke E. Howitt,

Ellen Marqusee,

Erik K. Alexander,

Edmund S. Cibas,

Jeffrey F. Krane,

Justine A. Barletta

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

thyroid

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.918

H-Index - 142

eISSN - 1557-9077

pISSN - 1050-7256

DOI - 10.1089/thy.2014.0612

Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , fine needle aspiration , atypia , cytopathology , thyroid carcinoma , thyroid , pathology , radiology , carcinoma , lymphovascular invasion , biopsy , cancer , cytology , metastasis

Increased recognition of the indolent nature of noninvasive follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (NFVPTC) along with greater insight into the molecular alterations of these tumors has prompted endocrine pathologists to question whether these tumors warrant a diagnosis of carcinoma. However, a change in terminology would affect the rates of malignancy of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) diagnostic categories. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the percentage decrease in associated risk of malignancy for each FNA diagnostic category if NFVPTCs were no longer termed carcinomas.

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