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Best Practice No 171

Best practice in thyroid pathology

Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK

Correspondence to:
Dr C E Anderson, Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK;
Catriona.Anderson{at}ed.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
Thyroid pathology is a specialist area but is often encountered by the general pathologist in a variety of forms including cytology, frozen sections, and resection specimens. In the thyroid gland, as for other endocrine organs, many aspects of diagnosis are unique to this area of histopathology; thus, the aims of this paper are to set out best practice guidelines which, although not entirely comprehensive, will be of practical use.

Keywords: thyroid; papillary carcinoma; follicular neoplasm

Abbreviations: CK19, cytokeratin 19; FNA, fine needle aspiration