Histiocytic Aggregates in Benign Nodular Goiters Mimicking Cytologic Features of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC)

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 243-245

  Nassar, Aziza ^a,c   Gupta, Prabodh ^b   LiVolsi, Virginia A ^b   Baloch, Zubair ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD68; Histiocytes; Papillary carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NODULAR GOITER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HISTIOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242331139     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10360     Document Type: Review

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