Cytologically Yours: Unknowns: 201311: Case 3

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Contents

1 Clinical History
2 Cytology
- 2.1 Resident Questions
3 Cytologic Features

Clinical History

32 year old male with a solid thyroid nodule on ultrasound.

Cytology

Resident Questions

Diagnosis?

What are the most common molecular associations?

What other entities of the thyroid may exhibit intranuclear pseudoinclusions?

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

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