Thyroid cytology: Is it a dead end or the promising beginning of a journey?

International Conference on Cytopathology

August 31-September 02, 2015 Toronto, Canada

Irina Shabalova

Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Russia

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Cytol Histol

Abstract :

Clinical cytology is one of the most important methods for assessing nodular thyroid lesions. Nowadays, that a lot of scientific works has been done to access the sensitivity, specificity, predictive value etc we still cannot predict some situations in management of thyroid lesions for a specific patient. Notwithstanding to accepted standards such as Bethesda system etc, we cannot make a definite prognosis for all patients, sometimes we are not able to be absolutely sure whether the situation for that very patient is a standard one or unusual. Thus in some cases we can be more or less near the final decision but not quite certain. And in â�?�?omicâ�? era, when a lot of prognostic factors can be calculated, the possibility to obtain living cells, cell groups and structures from thyroid before or instead of surgery to access their appearance, groups or structures, microenvironment together with clinical, biochemical, immunological, genetic or other features seemsto be very important. Liquid based cytology is the technology for more rigorous analysis of cellular composition both for Papanicolaou staining and molecular studies, although dried fixed MGG slides are of a great importance for thyroid samples because of the opportunity to access some details different from those in wet-fixed slides. Data of literature and personal experience on thyroid cytology will be discussed.

Biography :

Email: irenshab@inbox.ru