Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction and aim: The most endocrinologists in routine practice are used to Bethesda classification for evaluation of thyroid nodule in fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA). It is accepted that FNA biopsy is an accurate diagnostic and gold standard test. However, false-positive diagnosis may sometimes occur as a patient with a ‘malign’ lesion is found incorrectly rather than an actually benign lesion on histological examination. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis probab...

Adequacy of thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is generally defined by the thyroid follicle cells, amount, and quality of colloid. Samples priorly should be evaluated for adequacy. A set of qualifying criteria are specified in Bethesda system to remove subjectivity from the adequacy assessment. Each sample prepared from a thyroid FNA should be monitored at least six follicles cell groups containing at least ten cells. In addition to these criteria of assessing the adequacy, ...