C-cell hyperplasia

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C-cell hyperplasia is a pathology of the thyroid gland and considered the precursor for medullary thryoid carcinoma.

General

Gross

  • Not visible.

Microscopic

Features:

  • Location:[2]
    • Mid portion of lobe to upper third of lobe.
      • Not at the poles.
      • Not in the isthmus.
  • Definitions vary.[3]

One definition - either of the following:[1]

  1. >50 C-cells per low-power field (x100).
    • This part of the definition suffers from LPFitis. The paper should have been rejected.
  2. Confined to the thyroid gland and no larger than 10 mm in greatest dimension.

Another definition:

  • Invasion of the basement membrane with stromal reaction.

A third definition:

  • "Several clusters" of more than six C cells.

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See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Machens A, Hoffmann F, Sekulla C, Dralle H (December 2009). "Importance of gender-specific calcitonin thresholds in screening for occult sporadic medullary thyroid cancer". Endocr. Relat. Cancer 16 (4): 1291–8. doi:10.1677/ERC-09-0136. PMID 19726541. http://erc.endocrinology-journals.org/cgi/content/full/16/4/1291.
  2. URL: http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/Thyroid_11protocol.pdf. Accessed on: 7 April 2012.
  3. SR. 17 January 2011.
  4. Guyétant, S.; Josselin, N.; Savagner, F.; Rohmer, V.; Michalak, S.; Saint-André, JP. (Aug 2003). "C-cell hyperplasia and medullary thyroid carcinoma: clinicopathological and genetic correlations in 66 consecutive patients.". Mod Pathol 16 (8): 756-63. doi:10.1097/01.MP.0000081727.75778.0C. PMID 12920219.
  5. URL: http://www.forpath.org/workshops/0201/html/case_7.asp. Accessed on: 21 May 2013.