Edmund S. Cibas

TL;DR: The project participants hope that the adoption of this framework will facilitate communication among cytopathologists, endocrinologists, surgeons, and radiologists; facilitate cytologic-histologic correlation for thyroid diseases; facilitate research into the understanding of Thyroid diseases; and allow easy and reliable sharing of data from different laboratories for national and international collaborative studies.

TL;DR: The conclusions regarding terminology and morphologic criteria from the NCI meeting led to the Bethesda Thyroid Atlas Project and form the framework for The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC), a flexible framework for communication and research into thyroid diseases.

TL;DR: The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) established a standardized, category-based reporting system for thyroid fine-needle aspiration specimens, and the 2017 revision reaffirms that every thyroid FNA report should begin with one of six diagnostic categories.

TL;DR: The recommendations in this consensus statement, which are based on analysis of the current literature and common practice strategies, are thought to represent a reasonable approach to thyroid nodular disease.

TL;DR: Consideration of a more conservative approach for most patients with thyroid nodules that are cytologically indeterminate on fine-needle aspiration and benign according to gene-expression classifier results are suggested.