FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature

Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is an unusual neoplasm, which is associated with specific supportive diagnostic markers. Despite this, its cytological diagnosis is often difficult. We report herewith three cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma. The diagnosis was established on fine-needle aspirati...

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Autores principales: Mehdi, Ghazala, Maheshwari, Veena, Ansari, Hena A, Sadaf, Lubna, Khan, Mohammad Amanullah
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21157553
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.70745
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author Mehdi, Ghazala
Maheshwari, Veena
Ansari, Hena A
Sadaf, Lubna
Khan, Mohammad Amanullah
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description Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is an unusual neoplasm, which is associated with specific supportive diagnostic markers. Despite this, its cytological diagnosis is often difficult. We report herewith three cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma. The diagnosis was established on fine-needle aspiration cytology. Plasmacytoid cell pattern was observed in two cases and spindle cell pattern in the third case.
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spelling pubmed-30011792010-12-14 FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature Mehdi, Ghazala Maheshwari, Veena Ansari, Hena A Sadaf, Lubna Khan, Mohammad Amanullah J Cytol Case Report Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is an unusual neoplasm, which is associated with specific supportive diagnostic markers. Despite this, its cytological diagnosis is often difficult. We report herewith three cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma. The diagnosis was established on fine-needle aspiration cytology. Plasmacytoid cell pattern was observed in two cases and spindle cell pattern in the third case. Medknow Publications 2010-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3001179/ /pubmed/21157553 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.70745 Text en © Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Maheshwari, Veena
Ansari, Hena A
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Khan, Mohammad Amanullah
FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature
title FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature
title_full FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature
title_fullStr FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature
title_full_unstemmed FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature
title_short FNAC diagnosis of medullary carcinoma thyroid: A report of three cases with review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001179/
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