Macrofollicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Diagnosed by Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy
| Autor: | Stanislaw Woyke, Hussain Al-Jazzaf, Aisha Al-Jassar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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endocrine system
Frozen section procedure Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Histology Goiter endocrine system diseases medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Thyroid General Medicine medicine.disease Pathology and Forensic Medicine Thyroid carcinoma Fine-needle aspiration medicine.anatomical_structure Cytopathology Biopsy Carcinoma medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Acta Cytologica. 42:1184-1188 |
| ISSN: | 1938-2650 0001-5547 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Macrofollicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is an uncommon, recently described thyroid tumor. By frozen section it can be confused easily with goiter or macrofollicular adenoma. CASE: A 41-year-old female presented with a huge mass in the right thyroid lobe, cold on scintigraphy. By fine needle aspiration fluid was obtained. Smears of the sediment of the fluid showed epithelial cells with morphologic features diagnostic of PTC. Frozen section diagnosis was benign. CONCLUSION: This is the first reported case of macro-follicular variant of PTC diagnosed preoperatively by cytology. In our case the cytology was similar to that of cystic PTC. |
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