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Rosettes in papillary carcinoma of thyroid: A rare cytomorphological indicator of aggressive variants
Author(s) -
Nambirajan A.,
Batool S.,
Mandal P.,
Nakra T.,
Agarwal S.,
Jain D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1365-2303
pISSN - 0956-5507
DOI - 10.1111/cyt.12489
Subject(s) - medicine , pathology , thyroid carcinoma , thyroid , papillary carcinoma , cytology , fine needle aspiration cytology , rosette (schizont appearance) , carcinoma , immunology
We present a case of tall cell variant of papillary carcinoma of thyroid diagnosed on cytology showing predominance of rosette‐like formations. Also described previously for the columnar cell variant, these rosettes need to be differentiated from micro‐follicles and are an indicator for aggressive variants.