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== Malignant == | |||
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Left Thyroid, FNA: Malignant. (Category VI) | |||
Cellular aspirate. | |||
Malignant cells present with papillary fragments, powdery chromatin, nuclear grooves, intranuclear cytoplasmic pseudoinclusions, multinucleated giant cells and psammoma bodies consistent with papillary thyroid carcinoma. | |||
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== Suspicious for malignancy == | == Suspicious for malignancy == | ||
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Follicular cells with a predominantly microfollicular and syncytial architecture, scattered isolated cells, and colloid. Correlation of cytological findings with radiological and clinical findings is warranted. | Follicular cells with a predominantly microfollicular and syncytial architecture, scattered isolated cells, and colloid. Correlation of cytological findings with radiological and clinical findings is warranted. | ||
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===Molecular testing may be considered=== | |||
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The impression on imaging and the ACR TI-RADS are noted. | |||
The differential diagnosis includes (benign) adenomatoid nodule, follicular adenoma and follicular carcinoma. Molecular testing (not available in house) would be a fair and reasonable consideration. The cell block has moderate cellularity; it likely has sufficient tissue. | |||
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