title: Reporting thyroid fine-needle aspiration: literature review and a proposal.
abstract: Reporting schemes for thyroid fine-needle aspirations in the literature were reviewed and classified according to the number of categories in the scheme and the significance of each category. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive and negative values were determined for each scheme, if possible. A reporting scheme based on the probability of finding carcinoma on histology is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. hwang@bidmc.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Helen H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000175:diagnosis; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle / Q000379:methods; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012107:Research Design; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*