2018/2

The Second Symposium of the Working Group of Asian Thyroid FNA Cytology

2018/02/13

2nd WG Asian Thyroid FNA Cytology

The 2nd WG Asian Thyroid FNA Cytology

The Second Symposium of the Working Group of Asian Thyroid FNA Cytology was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 19 January, 2018. Thanks to professor Rangdaeng, president of Thai Society of Cytology, for giving us this wonderful opprtunity. Abstracts are aveilable at http://sspublications.org/index.php/JBCM . This WG had a productive year last year and published the following list of research articles and reviews. They were: Four papers in the special issue on NIFTP in J Basic Clinical Medicine, vol 6, 2017. (open access available on line from the journal website) Nine articles in the special issue on the current practices of thyroid FNA cytology in Asian countries in the J Pathol Translat Med, November issue, 2017. More original studies were published by our members in well-recognized international journals. They were;
1.Cho U, Mete O, Kim MH et al. Molecular correlates and rate of lymph node metastasis of non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features and invasive follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma: the impact of rigid criteria to distinguish non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features. Mod Pathol 2017; 30:810-25.
2.Bychkov A, Hirokawa M, Jung CK et al.: Low rate of noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features in Asian practice. Thyroid 2017; 27:983-984.
3.Kakudo K, Higuchi M, Hirokawa M et al.: Thyroid FNA cytology in Asian practice – Active surveillance for indeterminate thyroid nodules reduces overtreatment of thyroid carcinomas. Cytopathology 2017; 28:455-466.
4.Bychkov A, Keelawat S, Agarwal S, et al. Impact of noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features on risk of malignancy for the Bethesda categories: A multi-institutional study in five Asian countries. Pathology (in press).
5.Bychkov A, Jung CK, Liu Z, et al. Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features in Asian practice: A pathologist’s perspective.
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