Thyroid FNA Cytology (PDF)

Academy of Cytology and American Thyroid Association. Zhiyan Liu has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She is the first who proposed to set up a borderline tumor category, WDT-UB (well differentiated thyroid tumor uncertain clinical behavior, synonym of NIFTP) (PMID: 21070478), in the thyroid tumor classification in 2011, far before the NIFTP proposal. She is the first author of the first edition of Chinese Expert consensus on the cytopathological diagnosis of thyroid fine needle aspiration (version 2023).

Andrey Bychkov, MD, PhD, FRCPath is the Director of Digital Pathology at Kameda Medical Center in Kamogawa, Japan. His subspecialty is thyroid pathology and he has contributed to the 2022 WHO classification of endocrine and neuroendocrine tumors. Dr. Bychkov is a co-founding member of the Asian Thyroid Working Group. He curates the thyroid chapter and serves as a deputy editor for PathologyOutlines, as well as an academic editor for several international journals. He has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.

Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, MD, PhD, FIAC is the director of the Department of Diagnostic Pathology and Cytology at Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan. His specialty is thyroid cytology. He has diagnosed more than 7,000 cases of thyroid cytology and 1,700 cases of resected thyroid tissue annually. He has also performed more than 2000 thyroid aspirations annually. He has published more than 300 papers on thyroid cytology. He is one of the authors of the 3rd edition of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology.

Dr. Chan Kwon Jung is a professor of pathology at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital (The Catholic University of Korea). His main fields of expertise are thyroid pathology/cytopathology, molecular pathology, and digital pathology. Dr. Jung served as a coauthor on the fifth edition of the World Health Organization classification of thyroid tumors and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. He is currently editor-in-chief for the Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of Thyroid, Endocrine Pathology, Cancers, and the Journal of Korean Medical Science.

Dr. Chiung-Ru Lai is the past President of Taiwan Society of Clinical Cytology (2015-2021) and Taiwan Society of Pathology (2017-2023) and the current president of the Asian Thyroid Working Group. She has practiced surgical pathology and cytopathology in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Taipei Veterans General Hospital for over 30 years. She is one of the regional editors of Acta Cytologica and also serves as an editorial board member of Diagnostic Cytopathology. In addition to publishing scientific papers, she is also one of the authors of the 3rd edition of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology.