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Bethesda System, Thyroid

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Encyclopedia of Pathology

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Bethesda system; TBSRTC; The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology; Thyroid reporting system

Definition

The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) is a cytological reporting system used to describe, classify, and uniformize the terminology of cytological results obtained by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the thyroid. It is considered as the most important advance in thyroid cytopathology in the last years, as showed by its worldwide utilization and success. It was introduced in 2007 following the State of the Art conference in Bethesda (MY, USA), whose goal was to standardize terminology used in reporting thyroid cytology. In 2018 a new version of the system was released, following new and numerous publications on the previous system. Its success opened the door to the introduction of reporting system in other sites (salivary gland, urines, etc.).

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The Bethesda system is a six-tiered reporting system comprising six diagnostic...

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References and Further Reading

  • Ali, S. Z., & Cibas, E. S. (2018). The Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology. Definitions, criteria and explanatory notes (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.

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  • Alshaikh, S., Harb, Z., Aljufairi, E., & Almahari, S. A. (2018). Classification of thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology into Bethesda categories: An institutional experience and review of the literature. CytoJournal, 15, 4.

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  • Bongiovanni, M., Spitale, A., Faquin, W. C., Mazzucchelli, L., & Baloch, Z. W. (2012). The Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology: A meta-analysis. Acta Cytologica, 56, 333–339.

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  • Pusztaszeri, M., Rossi, E. D., Auger, M., et al. (2016). The Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology: Proposed modifications and updates for the second edition from an international panel. Acta Cytologica, 60, 399–405.

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  1. Synlab Pathology, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Massimo Bongiovanni

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    J.H.J.M. van Krieken

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Bongiovanni, M. (2020). Bethesda System, Thyroid. In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_5068-1

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