Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features

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Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary like-nuclear features is a proposed term for encapsulated thyroid tumours with papillary-like features. It is abbreviated NIFTP[1] and pronounced nift-pee.

The term NIFTP is a compromise of sorts and probably best described as a contrived acronym that can easily be pronounced; NIFTNPLNF isn't catchy or easy to pronounce.

If one wants to make it a backronym, NIFTP could be noninvasive follicular tumour, papillary-like.

General

  • Encapsulated thyroid tumours with nuclear papillary-like features without invasion have a good prognosis, and labelling them as cancer is probably not unwarranted.[2]
  • Can only be diagnosed on excisional specimens where the entire tumour capsule is sampled.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ↑ URL: http://lesterthompsonmd.com/medical-techniques/2016-scpmg-thyroid-niftp/. Accessed on: 26 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Ganly, I.; Wang, L.; Tuttle, RM.; Katabi, N.; Ceballos, GA.; Harach, HR.; Ghossein, R. (May 2015). "Invasion rather than nuclear features correlates with outcome in encapsulated follicular tumors: further evidence for the reclassification of the encapsulated papillary thyroid carcinoma follicular variant.". Hum Pathol 46 (5): 657-64. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2015.01.010. PMID 25721865.

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