Application of Immunohistochemistry in Thyroid Pathology

• Published in: Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine (1976) Vol. 139; no. 1; pp. 67 - 82
• Main Authors: Liu, Haiyan, Lin, Fan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States College of American Pathologists 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Biomarkers, Tumor - analysis; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Immunohistochemistry - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Thyroid Gland - metabolism; Thyroid Gland - pathology; Thyroid Neoplasms - diagnosis; Thyroid Neoplasms - metabolism

Accurate classification of follicular-patterned thyroid lesions is not always an easy task on routine surgical hematoxylin-eosin-stained or cytologic fine-needle aspiration specimens. The diagnostic challenges are partially due to differential diagnostic criteria that are often subtle and subjective...