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*It is interesting that uniform spacing in the context of thyroid is benign... in breast suggests DCIS. | *It is interesting that uniform spacing in the context of thyroid is benign... in breast suggests DCIS. | ||
=Normal parathyroid cytology= | |||
*May be confused with thyroid - single definitively separates them.<ref name=pmid11891946/> | |||
Chief cells:<ref name=pmid11891946>{{Cite journal | last1 = Absher | first1 = KJ. | last2 = Truong | first2 = LD. | last3 = Khurana | first3 = KK. | last4 = Ramzy | first4 = I. | title = Parathyroid cytology: avoiding diagnostic pitfalls. | journal = Head Neck | volume = 24 | issue = 2 | pages = 157-64 | month = Feb | year = 2002 | doi = | PMID = 11891946 }}</ref> | |||
*Small round-to-oval nucleus. | |||
*Granular chromatin. | |||
*Cytoplasm - often not distinct. | |||
*+/-Nuclear moulding. | |||
*+/-Nuclear overlap. | |||
=Adequacy criteria= | =Adequacy criteria= | ||