title: Follicular lesions of the thyroid.
abstract: Follicular lesions of the thyroid encompass a wide spectrum of diseases with clinicopathologic overlap, including benign follicular adenoma, malignant follicular carcinoma, and follicular variant of papillary cancer. This review addresses the clinical presentation, preoperative diagnosis in the era of molecular markers, pathologic diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of follicular lesions, taking into account the frequent controversy about definitive histologic diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Aarti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mathur
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Electronic address: mzeiger@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Martha A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Zeiger
mesh_terms: D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor
keywords: Cancer; Follicular; Neoplasms; Thyroid