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Occult thyroid cancer discovered by fine‐needle aspiration cytology of cervical lymph node: A report of three cases
Author(s) -
Matsuda Minoru,
Nagumo Sachiko,
Koyama Hiroki,
Wada Akira
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
diagnostic cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1097-0339
pISSN - 8755-1039
DOI - 10.1002/dc.2840070318
Subject(s) - medicine , occult , thyroid , lymph node , cytology , fine needle aspiration , pathology , cervical lymph nodes , radiology , cytopathology , carcinoma , thyroid cancer , thyroid carcinoma , lymph , cancer , biopsy , metastasis , alternative medicine
Three cases of occult thyroid cancer measuring 10, 6, and 3 mm in diameter were discovered by fine‐needle aspiration cytology of cervical lymph nodes. In these three cases, thyroid tumors were not palpable, and scintigraphic, echographic, and sof‐tissue radiologic examinations demonstrated no abnormalities of the thyroid glands. Cytologically, the presence of intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, nuclear grooves, and colloid was characteristic in aspirated materials. Histologically, all three cases were diagnosed as papillary carcinoma. Fine‐needle aspiration cytology of cervical lymph node was very useful to find occult carcinoma of the thyroid gland.