Cytologic features in fine-needle aspirates from a sclerosing mucoepidermoid thyroid carcinoma with eosinophilia

✍ Scribed by Lennart Bondeson; Anne-Greth Bondeson

• Book ID: 102651658
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 995 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-1039
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199611)15:4<301::aid-dc10>3.0.co;2-s

✦ Synopsis

Fine-needle aspirates from a sclerosing mucoepidennoid thyroid carcinoma with eosinophilia showed peculiar but nonspecific features. The overall picture seems more important than individual elements in recognizing this rare entity cytologically, since the predominant type of malignant cells has a deceptively bland appearance. Thc differential diagnoses include other primary thyroid malignancies, as well as metastatic growth and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.