BACKGROUND Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is the most dependable tool to triage thyroid nodules for medical or surgical management. However, Bethesda class III cytology, namely "follicular lesion of undetermined significance" (FLUS) or "atypia of undetermined significance" (AUS), is a major limitation of the US-FNA in assessing thyroid nodules. As the most important imaging method, ultrasound (US...

The Bethesda Healthcare Systems: Physician Information System case presents students with the opportunity to consider information systems from the viewpoint of a major healthcare provider. Bethesda Healthcare System (BHS) determined it had a strategic need to improve the communication process between the BHS and the doctors and among the doctors themselves. In the past few years BHS had begun w...

Carolyn J.M. Best a, John W. Gillespie a,c, Chad R. Englert a, Jennifer I. Swalwell a, John Pfeifer b, David B. Krizman c,d, Emanuel F. Petricoin e, Lance A. Liotta d and Michael R. Emmert-Buck a,∗ a Pathogenetics Unit, Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA b Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda...

Surajit Ganguly, Cristina Grodzki, David Sugden , Morten Møller**, Sandra Odom, Pascaline Gaildrat, Igal Gery, Reuben P. Siraganian, Juan Rivera, and David C. Klein From the Section on Neuroendocrinology, Office of the Scientific Director, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of...

The history of “The Bethesda System” (TBS) for reporting cervical cytology goes back almost 3 decades. This terminology and the process that created it have had a profound impact on the practice of cervical cytology for laboratorians and clinicians alike. The Bethesda conferences and their ensuing output have also set the stage for standardization of terminology across multiple organs systems, ...

a University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge, CB2 0SZ, UK. b Developmental Neurogenomics Unit, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. c Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. d Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. e Neurophysiology Imaging Fa...

Constantinos Petrovas, Takuya Yamamoto, David A. Price, Srinivas S. Rao, Nichole R. Klatt, Jason M. Brenchley, Daniel C. Douek, Emma Gostick, Bastian R. Angermann, Zvi Grossman, Derek C. Macallan, Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Richard A. Koup Immunology Laboratory, Human Immunology Section, Laboratory of Animal Medicine, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseas...

Alex J. Carlisle, Vinay V. Prabhu, Abdel Elkahloun, James Hudson, Jeffrey M. Trent, W. Marston Linehan, Elizabeth D. Williams, Michael R. Emmert-Buck, Lance A. Liotta, Peter J. Munson, and David B. Krizman* Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland Office of the Director, The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland Mathematical...