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Substernal Thyroid Biopsy Using Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration
Published on: November 10, 2014
[Bethesda 2023: A new terminology for thyroid cytopathology]
Beatrix Cochand-Priollet1, Philippe Vielh2
1Department of Pathology, Cochin AP-HP-Paris Centre; University Paris-Cité, Paris, France.
Abstract:
A third update of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology has been published in 2023 following the first (2010) and second (2017) versions. The main modifications are the following 1) a new co-Editor, 2) 4 associate editors, 3 of them from Europe, 3) the inclusion of 65 co-authors, 19 of them from Europe, 4) 2 new chapters: one dealing with pediatrics thyroid cytopathology and the other one describing molecular cytopathology profiling, 5) updated risks of malignancy (ROM), 6) a terminology in line with the 2022 WHO classification of thyroid tumors, 7) diagnostic categories now defined by a unique name, 8) 2 subtypes in the "Atypia of Undetermined Significance" category with corresponding ROM.

