Erschienen in:
10.11.2017 | Letter to the Editor
Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-like Nuclear Features (NIFTP): Did We Trade Six for a Half a Dozen?
verfasst von:
Pedro Weslley Rosário
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 7/2018
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Excerpt
Recently, Parente et al. [
1] reported 5% of lymph node metastases and 1% of distant metastases in 102 patients with “noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features” (NIFTP). It is important to point out that these results were found even using a more rigorous diagnostic criterion, i.e., the absence [
1] and not < 1% of papillae [
2]. The expertise of the pathologists who revised the histology slides is known and there is no reason to question the adequate observation of the diagnostic criterion [
2]. Finally, a similar frequency of lymph node metastases [
3,
4] and even distant metastases [
3] has been reported recently in other series. In view of these results, Parente et al. [
1] join other authors [
3,
5] who believe that NIFTP should be considered a low-risk “cancer.” …