Pietro Tralongo, Carmine Bruno, Federica Policardo, Federica Vegni, Angela Feraco, Angela Carlino, Giulia Ferraro, Domenico Milardi, Elena Navarra, Alfredo Pontecorvi, Celestino Pio Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Luigi Maria Larocca, Liron Pantanowitz, Esther Diana Rossi
BACKGROUND: The presurgical evaluation of cervical lymph nodes (CLNs) in the management of thyroid malignant lesions is crucial for the extent of surgery or detection of metastases. In these last decades, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been shown to have a central role in the detection of nodal thyroid metastases. It is adopted for the possibility of confirming suspected metastases either in the presurgical phase or in the follow-up of patients after thyroidectomy. However, FNAC from CLNs can be challenging, especially in cystic lesions...
July 31, 2023: Cancer Cytopathology