Thyroid cancers - case 1631 (cytologic picture 4 - of another smear)


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Right lobe, longitudinal scan

Wright-Giemsa staining, 400x.   A solid nest and epithelial cells in an amorphous background. The presence of the latter would be unusual in the case of a primary thyroid lesion except for medullary cancer.

 

 

 

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