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American Society of Cytopathology




Case 1

Submitted by: Yun Gong, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Clinical History: PA 42-year old woman with a non-tender anterior neck nodule found incidentally by self-palpation

She had no past family or personal history of malignancy


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Case 2

Submitted by: Ed Stelow, University of Virginia

Imagine, If You Will...
  • It's 4:30 on Friday

  • Last cytology case

  • A thyroid FNA from outside that did not have any on-site interpretation

  • It is from a 45-year old woman with a "2.5 cm left thyroid nodule"

  • You open the tray...there are 20 slides that all look bloody, you cannot grossly see any colloid and...there are very few dots from your screener



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What You Have
  • Blood, a lot

  • 15-20 groups of follicular cells… no microfollicles, occasional sheets

  • No nuclear features of papillary CA

  • A little colloid, probably

  • Some siderophages

What is your diagnosis?



Case 3

Submitted by: Mike Thrall, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX and Weill Cornell Medical College

Clinical History: 50 Year-Old Female: 1.8 cm Left Thyroid Nodule Ultrasound-Guided FNA


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