title: Diagnostic criteria and risk-adapted approach to indeterminate thyroid cytodiagnosis.
abstract: Significant numbers of overdiagnoses of thyroid needle biopsies as "indeterminate" create a risk of surgery for benign disease. Overdiagnoses can be reduced by appropriate criteria and a risk-adapted approach to cytodiagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Outpatient Pathology Associates, Sacramento, California 95816, USA. fna@ix.netcom.com
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Abele
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery