Kobe ​Thyroid Cytology Club

Hirokawa M, Suzuki A.

Recent topics on thyroid cytopathology: reporting systems and ancillary studies.

J Pathol Transl Med. 2025 Jul;59(4):214-224. PMID: 40583694; PMCID: PMC12264477.

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Hirokawa M, Katoh R, Amano T, Chiba T, Yamazaki N, Satoh S, Towata M, Ohi Y, Maeda Y, Fukushima M, Sasaki E, Yasuoka H, Higuchi M, Suzuki A, Akamizu T.

Proposal for including risk of malignancy and clinical management in the Japanese system for reporting thyroid cytopathology - A multi-institutional study.

Cytojournal. 2025 May 15;22:55. doi: 10.25259/Cytojournal_229_2024. PMID: 40539120; PMCID: PMC12178087.

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Kakudo K, Bychkov A, Hang JF, Hirokawa M, Keelawat S, Liu Z, Srinivasan R, Jung CK. 

Letter: "High Rates of Unnecessary Surgery for Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules in the Absence of Molecular Test and the Cost-Effectiveness of Utilizing Molecular Test in an Asian Population: A Decision Analysis" by Fung et al.

Thyroid. 2025 May;35(5):595-596. doi: 10.1089/thy.2025.0072. Epub 2025 Mar 25. PMID: 40130275.

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Suzuki A, Hirokawa M, Kawakami M, Kudo T, Miyauchi A, Akamizu T.

Proposal for Clinical Management of Nodules Diagnosed as Atypia of Undetermined Significance via Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Absence of Molecular Testing.

Cytopathology. 2025 Mar;36(2):115-122. doi: 10.1111/cyt.13467. Epub 2025 Jan 10. PMID: 39794920; PMCID: PMC11810542.

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Fujimoto T, Hirokawa M, Suzuki A, Oshita M, Yamaoka H, Fujishima M, Onoda N, Miyauchi A, Akamizu T.

Impact of adipocytes on ultrasound evaluation of parathyroid adenomas.

J Med Ultrason (2001). 2025 Apr;52(2):237-243. doi: 10.1007/s10396-024-01511-2.  PMID: 39731664; PMCID: PMC12018633.

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Ito Y, Kawakami M, Hirokawa M, Yamamoto M, Kihara M, Onoda N, Miya A, Miyauchi A, Akamizu T.

Management of thyroid tumors diagnosed cytologically as follicular neoplasms in a high-volume center: utility of a scoring system using serum thyroglobulin level, tumor size, ultrasound testing, and cytological diagnosis.

Endocr J. 2025 Feb 3;72(2):161-170. doi: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ24-0364. Epub 2024 Oct 29. PMID: 39477488; PMCID: PMC11850102.