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Ultimobranchial body rest in thryoid
- Gives rise to C cells
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Lingual thyroid
- dense fibrous tissue
3
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Parathyroid tissue in thyroid capsule
4
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Normal thryoid
- cuboidal epihtelial cells with reich vacular network
5
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Palpation thyroiditis
- histiocytes and lymphocytes
6
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Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
7
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Radiation change, nodular goiter
8
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Hemochromatosis, PPB
9
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Papillary thyroid carcinoma
10
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Metastatic PTC in LN
- +: CK, thyroglobulin
11
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PTC, solid variant
12
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Follicular adenoma
- no capsular or vascular invasion
- microfollicular pattern, thinly encapsulated
13
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Follicular carcinoma
- BM bx showing thyroid follicles
- capsular invasion by primary
- vascular invasion in primary specimen
14
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Hurthle cell nodule with extensive necrosis
15
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Medullary carcinoma
- nests of rounded mildly pleomorphic cells surrounded by amyloid
16
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Medullary carcinoma
- +: calcitonin, CEA
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C cell nodular proliferation
- MEN2A
- +: calcitonin
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Insular carcinoma
- poorly differentiated
- showing some neuroendocrine growth pattern
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DLBCL in pt with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
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Post-FNA infarction of thyroid
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Normal parathyroid
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Parathyroid adenoma
- lack of fat
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Parathryoid carcinoma
- invasion of other structures
- vascular invasion
- mitoses
- nuclear pleomorphism present
- intranuclear pseudoinclusions
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Parathyroid carcinoma
- Difficult to make dx on histo but mitoses helpful
- Gross and clinical showing invasion of other structures best indicator
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Normal parathyroid, Oil Red O
* 80% are nonsecretory phase and contain intracytoplasmic fat
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Parathyroid adenoma, Oil Red O
* total absence of fat
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