Performance Comparison in the "Follicular Neoplasm" Category Between the American, British, Italian, and Japanese Systems for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology

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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Performance Comparison in the "Follicular Neoplasm" Category Between the American, British, Italian, and Japanese Systems for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology
Journal
Journal of Basic & Clinical Medicine
Author(s)
Bongiovanni M., Kakudo K., Nobile A.
ISSN
2167-3039
ISSN-L
2167-3039
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
4
Number
2
Pages
42-45
Language
english
Abstract
It is now almost ten years that the United Stated of America, England, Italy and Japan had their own reporting system to classify thyroid lesions. Important confusion and uncertainties dominated the "follicular-patterned lesions", a category also known as the "gray zone". Every cytopathologist was using a personal terminology to describe and call lesions made up of a variable admixture of macro- and microfollicular structures. These personal views varied considerably between cytopathologists and generated a great deal of confusion among patients (the cytological report being almost incomprehensible to them), clinicians and even within the same cytopathology community. With the advent of national reporting systems, things changed in a better way and standardized reporting systems became the standard of practice in thyroid cytology. The outcome of the widespread use of standardized diagnostic categories was the reduction of descriptive diagnoses and the improved communication between pathologists, clinicians and patients. In this article we review the major reporting systems, analyze their similarities and differences in the "indeterminate" or "follicular-patterned" diagnostic categories, and when possible, try to assess their performance.
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