• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology : Definitions, Criteria and Explanatory Notes
  • Contains: Overview of diagnostic terminology and reportingNondiagnostic/unsatisfactory -- Benign -- Atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance -- Follicular neoplasm/suspicious for a follicular neoplasm -- Follicular neoplasm, Hurthle cell type/suspicious for a follicular neoplasm, Hurthle cell type -- Suspicious for malignancy -- Papillary thyroid carcinoma and variants -- Medullary thyroid carcinoma -- Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma -- Undifferentiated (anaplastic) carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid -- Metastatic tumors and lymphomas.
  • Contributor: Ali, Syed Z. [Author]; Cibas, Edmund S. [Other]
  • imprint: New York [u.a.]: Springer, 2010
  • Published in: SpringerLink ; Bücher
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (XIV, 174p. 200 illus. in color, digital)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-87666-5
  • ISBN: 9780387876665
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  • RVK notation: XG 7011 : Methodik, Arbeitsmethoden, Nachweise, (einschließlich Apparate, Instrumente, Einrichtung)
  • Keywords: Medicine ; Endocrinology ; Cancer Surgery ; Pathology ; Medicine & Public Health ; Thyroid Neoplasms diagnosis ; Biopsy, Fine-Needle methods ; Thyroid Gland pathology
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) is one of the most commonly performed cytologic procedures and is the standard diagnostic method for managing the patient with a thyroid nodule. This book provides the reader with an approach to diagnosing and reporting thyroid FNA. It is suitable for pathologists, endocrinologists, surgeons, and radiologists