Hemosiderin laden macrophages and hemosiderin within follicular cells distinguish benign follicular lesions from follicular neoplasms

CytoJournal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jaffar, Reema ^a   Mohanty, Sambit ^a   Khan, Ashraf ^a   Fischer, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign colloid nodule; follicular cells; hemosiderin laden macrophages; hemosiderin within follicular neoplasms; macrophages

Indexed keywords

HEMOSIDERIN;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA;

EID: 77956563529     PISSN: 09745963     EISSN: 17426413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1742-6413.45193     Document Type: Article

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