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Review
. 2017 Nov;51(6):560-564.
doi: 10.4132/jptm.2017.09.20. Epub 2017 Oct 18.

Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration in Taiwan: The History and Current Practice

Jen-Fan Hang  1   2 , Chih-Yi Hsu  1   2 , Chiung-Ru Lai  1   2
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Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration in Taiwan: The History and Current Practice

Jen-Fan Hang et al. J Pathol Transl Med. 2017 Nov.

Abstract

In Taiwan, thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine gland malignancy and the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased four-fold in the past two decades. Fine-needle aspiration is an accurate and cost-effective method of evaluating thyroid nodules and has been the gold-standard diagnostic tool for thyroid tumors in Taiwan since the 1980s. This article reviews the history, current practice, reporting systems, training, and quality assurance for thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology in Taiwan.

Keywords: Biopsy, fine-needle; Cytology; Taiwan; Thyroid.

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Fig. 1.
Thyroid cancer statistics from 2004 to 2014. The proportion of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) among thyroid cancers has increased 11% (blue line) and the proportion of thyroid cancer among all cancers has increased 1.1% (red line). Data from the Taiwan Cancer Registry Annual Report [1].
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Fig. 2.
The second edition of Thyroid and Parathyroid Cytology (Leader Book Company, 2015) [24] by Prof. Tien-Chung Chang.
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