Paraganglioma-like medullary thyroid carcinoma: Fine needle aspiration cytology features with histological correlation

Cytopathology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 188-194

  Ryska, Ales ^a,b   Cap, J ^b   Vaclavikova, E ^c   Dvorakova, S ^c   Bendlova, B ^c   Hovorkova, E ^b   Kohout, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cytodiagnosis; Diagnostic pitfall; FNAC; Immunocytochemistry; Medullary carcinoma; Paraganglioma like; PCR; Sustentacular cell; Thyroid; Variant

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; CALCITONIN; DNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL GRANULE; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL STRUCTURE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXON; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SMEAR; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MUTATION; PARAGANGLIOMA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 65649138816     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2008.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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