Can abundant colloid exclude oncocytic (Hürthle cell) carcinoma in thyroid fine needle aspiration? Cytohistological correlation of 127 oncocytic (Hürthle cell) lesions

Cytopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 185-193

  Yang, G C H ^a   Schreiner, A M ^a   Sun, W ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytological features; Fine needle aspiration; H rthle cell carcinoma; H rthle cell neoplasm; Oncocytic follicular carcinoma; Oncocytic follicular neoplasm; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOID TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CELL HYPERPLASIA; COLLOID; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; ISTHMUSECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; ONCOCYTOMA; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878400089     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2012.00988.x     Document Type: Article

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