Difference between revisions of "Cytologically Yours: Unknowns: 201311: Case 3"
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* <spoiler text="What other entities of the thyroid may exhibit intranuclear pseudoinclusions?"> | * <spoiler text="What other entities of the thyroid may exhibit intranuclear pseudoinclusions?"> | ||
*Medullary carcinoma. </spoiler> | *Medullary carcinoma. </spoiler> | ||
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| + | ==Cytologic Features== | ||
| + | *Powdery chromatin, grooves, pseudoinclusions, nucleolus | ||
| + | *Crowding and overlapping | ||
| + | *Sheets, papillae | ||
| + | *Variable cytoplasm (scant, squamoid, Hurthle-like, vacuolated) | ||
| + | *Psammoma bodies | ||
| + | *Giant cells | ||
| + | *Bubble gum colloid | ||
| + | *Septated cytoplasm | ||
Latest revision as of 19:54, 10 January 2014
Clinical History
32 year old male with a solid thyroid nodule on ultrasound.
Cytology
Resident Questions
Cytologic Features
- Powdery chromatin, grooves, pseudoinclusions, nucleolus
- Crowding and overlapping
- Sheets, papillae
- Variable cytoplasm (scant, squamoid, Hurthle-like, vacuolated)
- Psammoma bodies
- Giant cells
- Bubble gum colloid
- Septated cytoplasm
