Recommended thyroid books
First choice:
Chapters in general pathology books:
Endocrine/Head-Neck volumes:
FNA:
Related:
Clinical:
Professional societies
Pathology:
- Endocrine Pathology Society - Affiliated Journal: Endocrine Pathology
- UK Endocrine Pathology Society
Clinical:
- American Thyroid Association - Affiliated Journal: Thyroid
- Endocrine Society - Affiliated Journal: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Society for Endocrinology - Affiliated Journal: Endocrine-Related Cancer
- European Society of Endocrinology - Affiliated Journal: European Journal of Endocrinology
Media
Virtual slides (main):
Virtual slides (more):
Images:
YouTube channels:
Guidelines
Pathology:
Clinical:
Online resources
- Special issues
- Journal articles
- Review on rare thyroid tumors (Endocr Pathol 2020;31:197)
- Dissecting anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (Thyroid 2020;30:1505)
- Grading of medullary thyroid carcinoma based on necrosis and proliferation (Mod Pathol 2020;33:1690, Am J Surg Pathol 2020;44:1419)
- Characterization of metastatic lymph nodes for risk stratification of papillary thyroid carcinoma (Eur J Endocrinol 2020;183:83)
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma with high grade features (Thyroid 2021 Jan 19 [Epub ahead of print])
- DICER1 in pediatric thyroid cancer (Mod Pathol 2020;33:1264) and thyroid teratomas (Am J Surg Pathol 2020;44:826)
- Measures to improve clinical decision making in thyroid FNA (Cancer Cytopathol 2020;128:917)
- Books
- Videos
- Histopathology
NIFTP by R. Ghossein (2020)
Diagnostic dilemmas in NIFTP by N. Cipriani (2020)
Extrathyroidal extension by J. Hernandez-Prera (2020)
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma by M. Brandwein (2020)
Oncocytic lesions by Z. Baloch (2020)
Update on thyroid neoplasms by R. Lloyd (2020)
Virtual slides of main thyroid lesions by G. Tranesh (2020)
- Cytopathology
Thyroid cytopathology by S. Ali (2020)
Pediatric thyroid nodules by A. Wassner and A. Bauer (2020)
- Molecular
ThyroSeq testing by Y. Nikiforov (2020)
ThyGenX/ThyraMIR panel by Alidad Mireskandari (2018)
- Histopathology
- Major updates on PathOutlines
- Bethesda topics (suspicious for malignancy, malignant)
- Papillary carcinoma variants (classic, microcarcinoma, tall cell and others)
- Chemistry pages (thyroid function panel, calcitonin and more)
- ICCR carcinoma of the thyroid histopathology reporting guide ICCR: Carcinomas of the Thyroid (TNM8) [Accessed 28 January 2020]
- Core needle biopsy guidelines J Pathol Transl Med 2020;54:64
- Special issues
- Endocrine Pathology (Surg Pathol Clin 2019;12:865)
- Cytology and Surgical Pathology of the Thyroid (AJSP Reviews & Reports 2019;24:39)
- Mini-Symposium Endocrine Pathology (Diagnostic Histopathology 2019;25:143)
- Journal articles
- Reviews on evolving concepts (Hum Pathol 2019;95:46), histological classification (Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 2019;48:1) and follicular-patterned nodules (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2019;143:1472)
- Debates in Archives on role of pathologists in overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2018;142:1018, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2019;143:1171, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2019;143:1171)
- Reviews on molecular testing in indeterminate FNA (Endocr Rev 2018;39:154, Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 2019;48:85, Acta Cytol 2020;64:40)
- Hyalinizing trabecular tumor decoded (Thyroid 2019;29:161, Mod Pathol 2019;32:1734)
- AI in thyroid histopathology (J Clin Med 2019;8:1675, Ann Transl Med 2019;7:468) and cytology (J Cancer 2019;10:4876)
- Books
- Major updates on PathOutlines
- Grossing guide
- Ultrasound and cytology techniques
- Bethesda topics (adequacy, nondiagnostic, AUS, FN, Hürthle)
- Papillary carcinoma pages
- Special issue of Endocrine Pathology on IHC biomarkers in endocrine pathology (Endocr Pathol 2018;29)
- Journal articles
- Review of the new WHO classification of thyroid tumors (Pathol Int 2018;68:641)
- Revision of NIFTP criteria (JAMA Oncol 2018;4:1125, Cancer Cytopathol 2018;126:897)
- Update on molecular testing (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2018;142:446)
- Books
- Video
- Histopathology
An alphabet soup of thyroid neoplasms (2018) by L. Thompson
- Cytology
The atypical thyroid FNA (2017) by E. Cibas
Algorithmic approach to thyroid FNA (2018) by Z. Baloch
- Molecular
New molecular platforms (2017) by E. Cibas, P. Sadow, and R. Kloos
Genomic evolution of thyroid nodules and cancer (2018) by Y. Nikiforov
- Histopathology
- Annual review issue of Histopathology on endocrine pathology: Histopathology 2018;72:3
- Journal articles
- Practical synopsis on NIFTP: Mod Pathol 2018;31:39, Histopathology 2018;72:53
- Molecular pathology and molecular testing: Annu Rev Pathol 2018;13:141, Endocr Pract 2017;23:979, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2018;142:446, Endocr Pathol 2018 May 9 [Epub ahead of print]
- FVPTC and thyroid cancer: J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017;102:15, Pathology 2017;49:229
- Books
- Ali: The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology - Definitions, Criteria, and Explanatory Notes 2nd Edition, 2018
- Amin: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual 8th Edition, 2018
- Lloyd :WHO Classification of Tumours of Endocrine Organs (IARC WHO Classification of Tumours) 4th Edition, 2017
- Nosé: Diagnostic Pathology - Endocrine, 2nd Edition, 2017
- Cameselle-Teijeiro: Rare Tumors of the Thyroid Gland - Diagnosis and WHO classification, 1st Edition, 2017
- Mini symposium on thyroid pathology by Diagnostic Histopathology: Diagn Histopathol (Oxf) 2016;22:171
- Journal articles
- Introduction of NIFTP: JAMA Oncol 2016;2:1023
- MASC of the thyroid: Mod Pathol 2016;29:985
- Genotyping of aggressive thyroid cancers (anaplastic and poorly differentiated): J Clin Invest 2016;126:1052
- Thyroid C cells were found to derive from endoderm, not neural crest: Development 2015;142:3519
- ATA 2015 guidelines on thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer: Thyroid 2016;26:1
- Books (links also available here):
- Rosai: AFIP Tumors of the Thyroid and Parathyroid, 2015 – updated AFIP fascicle
- Wenig: Atlas of Head-Neck Pathology 3rd Edition, 2015 – up-to-date, richly illustrated
- Kakudo: Thyroid FNA Cytology: Differential Diagnoses and Pitfalls, 2016 – a look on thyroid pathology from Asian experts
- Mete: Endocrine Pathology, 1st Edition, 2016
- Wartofsky: Thyroid Cancer – A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, 3rd Edition, 2016