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Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting

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The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology

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Fine needle aspiration (FNA) plays an essential role in the evaluation of the euthyroid patient with a thyroid nodule: it reduces unnecessary surgery for patients with benign nodules and appropriately triages patients with malignant nodules for timely clinical intervention. It is critical, therefore, that the cytopathologist communicate thyroid FNA interpretations to the referring physician in terms that are succinct, unambiguous, and clinically useful.

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Zubair W. Baloch M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Erik K. Alexander M.D.

  3. Department of Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

    Hossein Gharib M.D.

  4. Department of Pathology, University of Colorado at Denver, UCDHSC Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

    Stephen S. Raab M.D.

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  1. N. Wolfe Street, PATH 406 600, Baltimore, 21287, U.S.A.

    Syed Z. Ali

  2. Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Francis St. 75, Boston, 02115, U.S.A.

    Edmund S. Cibas

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Baloch, Z.W., Alexander, E.K., Gharib, H., Raab, S.S. (2010). Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting. In: Ali, S., Cibas, E. (eds) The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87666-5_1

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