The impact of the non‐invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary‐like nuclear feature terminology in the routine diagnosis of thyroid tumours

Abstract

In the routine evaluation of FNA biopsies, the presence of subtle and questionable PTC-like nuclear features still remains a controversial aspect of the diagnostic workflow. Given that the NIFTP category was introduced to stratify the low-risk group of thyroid tumours more precisely, pathologists should force themselves to apply the nuclear score rigorously and to classify cases assigned a score of 1 as benign proliferations.