Approach to thyroid cytology: rationale for standardisation

M P Kumarasinghe¹, M C Cummings, W Raymond+18

• ¹1PathWest, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands and University of Western Australia, WA 2RCPAQAP Cytopathology, St Leonards, Sydney, NSW 3Clinpath Laboratories and Flinders Medical Centre, SA 4School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology and Department of Cytology, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Qld 5Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia 6Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic, Australia 7Aotea Pathology Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 8Pathology North, c/o John Hunter Hospital, NSW 9SA Pathology and Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 10Academic Unit of Surgery, ANU Medical School, ACT 11Medical Imaging, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA 12PathWest, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA 13Department of Anatomical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, and Southern IML Pathology, Wollongong, NSW, Australia 14Department of Pathology, National University Hospital, Singapore 15Perth Endocrine Surgery, Leederville, WA 16Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands WA 17Department of Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW 18Australian Society of Cytology, Brooklyn Park, SA 19Department of Anatomical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 20Capital Pathology, Deakin, ACT 21Histology and Cytology Departments, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Indooroopilly, Qld, Australia.