Medullary thyroid carcinoma presenting as rectangular cell type on fine-needle aspiration. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Medullary thyroid carcinoma typically presents as dyscohesive plasmacytoid, spindled, or polygonal cells on fine-needle aspiration smears. We recently encountered a case of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma that presented as a hypercellular aspirate composed of cohesive aggregates of rectangle-shaped cells. The case was mistakenly reported as a hypercellular follicular neoplasm on cytology. Subsequent thyroidectomy revealed medullary carcinoma. We draw attention to this distinctive rectangular cell type as an additional morphology for medullary thyroid carcinoma.

publication date

  • March 1, 2009

Research

keywords

  • Carcinoma, Medullary
  • Thyroid Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 64249126389

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/dc.21041

PubMed ID

  • 19156827

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 37

issue

  • 3