April - June 2013, Volume 9, Issue 2

Ioachim D

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Thyroid Facing Molecular Biology Techniques. Pathologist View

Acta Endo (Buc) 2013, 9 (2): 155-160
doi: 10.4183/aeb.2013.155

Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) was designed as a rapid and cost efficient tool in the morphological diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Provided by efficient sampling especially by the wide scale use of ultrasound guidance, by the on-site evaluation of the quality of sampling, the FNAB, as a diagnostic tool, still have an undetermined ratio of diagnosis ranging from 5 to 40 % according to the experience of the examinator. About what are the critical points defining the performance of FNAB in thyroid nodules, and where is the place of molecular biology. I will insert some short comments: the critical steps in performing FNAB are the sampling, the interpreting and the good communication of the diagnosis to the clinician.

Keywords: sampling, interpreting,communication.

Correspondence: Dumitru Ioachim MD, “C.I. Parhon” Institute of Endocrinology, Pathology and Cytopathology Dept., Aviatorilor Blvd. 32-34, Bucharest, 011862, Romania, E-mail: dumitru_ioachim@yahoo.co.uk