Assessment of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Surgical and Long-Term Clinical Follow-up of 2, 893 Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspirations. Issue 4 (15th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sauter, Jennifer L; Lehrke, Heidi; Zhang, Xiaotun; Al Badri, Osamah T; Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Rene; Delivanis, Danae A; Singh Ospina, Naykky; Donegan, Diane; Hamidi, Oksana; Iñiguez-Ariza, Nicole; Sharma, Anu; Kittah, Nana Esi N; Tamhane, Shrikant U; Hurtado Andrade, Maria D; Kotwal, Anupam; Jenkins, Sarah M; Spears, Grant; Rivera, Michael; Dean, Diana S; Henry, Michael R
• Is Part Of: American journal of clinical pathology. Volume 152:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 502
• Page End: 511
• Publication Date: 2019-07-15
• Subjects: Bethesda -- Cytopathology -- Fine-needle aspiration -- Atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance -- Risk of malignancy -- Follicular neoplasm/suspicious for follicular neoplasm -- Papillary thyroid carcinoma -- Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP) -- Thyroid -- FNA; Diagnosis, Laboratory -- Periodicals; Pathology -- Periodicals; 616.07
• DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqz076
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-9173

Abstract

Abstract: Objectives: Long-term follow-up is important for determining performance characteristics of thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Methods: Histologic or 3 or more years of clinical follow-up was used to calculate performance characteristics of thyroid FNA before and after implementation of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC). The impact of noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP) classification was also investigated. Results: Follow-up was obtained for 1, 277/1, 134 and 1, 616/1, 393 aspirates/patients (median clinical follow-up, 9.9 and 4.4 years, pre- and post-TBSRTC, respectively). Nondiagnostic, suspicious for follicular neoplasm, and suspicious for malignancy (SFM) diagnoses decreased and benign diagnoses increased post-TBSRTC, while atypical rate remained less than 1%. Negative predictive value for benign nodules and positive predictive value (PPV) for SFM increased significantly. Eleven nodules were reclassified as NIFTP, slightly decreasing PPV/risk of malignancy (ROM). Conclusions: Appropriate ROM for thyroid FNA can be achieved through application of TBSRTC terminology with minimal use of atypical category.