Julie Ann Walby, MD
Cytopathology Fellow

Evelyn Gopez, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

Sharon Hirschowitz, MD
Clinical Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• distinguish the diagnostic categories suggested in the 2007 National Cancer Institute Thyroid FNA State of the Science Conference.
• delineate diagnostic criteria for follicular proliferations of the thyroid.
• describe post–fine-needle aspiraton follow-up and treatment options associated with diagnostic categories of follicular lesions of the thyroid.
• discuss the different types of follicular lesions commonly encountered in the thyroid.