Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis - Case 75.
Follow-up investigation 2 years later (cytologic picture 5)
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Pap-smear, 1000x. The upper three cells contain intranuclear round figure. In contrast with pathognomic inclusions, these are not light and two of them is not round but oval. The presence of a macrophage would be an unusual finding in a simple Hashimoto's thyroiditis and increases the chance being this lesion a nodule in a pathological sense.

