Adequacy criteria for thyroid FNA evaluated by ThinPrep slides only.

Marina ViveroAndrew A Renshaw Jeffrey F Krane

Published in: Cancer cytopathology (2017)

In thyroid FNA examined with TP only, lowering the adequacy threshold and eliminating the requirement of 6 groups of at least 10 cells did not significantly affect test performance if cytological features associated with malignancy were absent. Cancer Cytopathol 2017;125:534-43. © 2017 American Cancer Society.

Keyphrases

papillary thyroid
squamous cell
fine needle aspiration
induced apoptosis
lymph node metastasis
squamous cell carcinoma
young adults
endoplasmic reticulum stress