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**Small, round nuclei. | **Small, round nuclei. | ||
**Coarse chromatin (''salt and pepper nuclei''). | **Coarse chromatin (''salt and pepper nuclei''). | ||
*Amyloid deposits - fluffy appearing acellular eosinophilic material in the cytoplasm. | *+/-[[Amyloid]] deposits - fluffy appearing acellular eosinophilic material in the cytoplasm. | ||
*C-cell hyperplasia (associated with familial forms of MTC). | *C-cell hyperplasia (associated with familial forms of MTC). | ||
**C cells (AKA ''parafollicular cell''): abundant cytoplasm - clear/pale. | **C cells (AKA ''parafollicular cell''): abundant cytoplasm - clear/pale. | ||
Images: | Images: | ||
*[http://jcp.bmj.com/content/vol57/issue3/images/large/cp8474.f16.jpeg Medullary thyroid carcinoma (bmj.com)]. | *www: | ||
*[http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v70/n11/fig_tab/5001888f2.html C cell hyperplasia (nature.com)]. | **[http://jcp.bmj.com/content/vol57/issue3/images/large/cp8474.f16.jpeg Medullary thyroid carcinoma (bmj.com)]. | ||
*[http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~babiarz/Review3/Lp6/scope8.htm C cell (rutgers.edu)]. | **[http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v70/n11/fig_tab/5001888f2.html C cell hyperplasia (nature.com)]. | ||
*[http://www.anatomyatlases.org/MicroscopicAnatomy/Images/Plate287.jpg Parafollicular cells (anatomyatlases.org)]. | **[http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~babiarz/Review3/Lp6/scope8.htm C cell (rutgers.edu)]. | ||
**[http://www.anatomyatlases.org/MicroscopicAnatomy/Images/Plate287.jpg Parafollicular cells (anatomyatlases.org)]. | |||
*[[WC]]: | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medullary_thyroid_carcinoma_-_low_mag.jpg MTC - low mag. (WC)]. | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medullary_thyroid_carcinoma_-_high_mag.jpg MTC - high mag. (WC)]. | |||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medullary_thyroid_carcinoma_-_2_-_high_mag.jpg MTC and amyloid - high mag. (WC)]. | |||
===IHC=== | ===IHC=== | ||