General and Systemic Histopathology, C601&C602
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The tissue on your
slide is actually only a small wedge out of the intact and much larger lesion.
You should be able to find part of the capsule and see the difference between
the cells within the capsule and those outside. Yes you will see many inflammatory
cells. The chronic inflammation seems to be a fairly consistent part
of many forms of thyroid disease. See this slide with the virtual microscope. |
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In this picture you see a wedge of the adenoma with the capsule compressing the surrounding normal thyroid tissue. There will very likely be a few chronic inflammatory cells with some fibrosis around the adenoma, and elsewhere in this slide. How do we distinguish an adenoma from a malignant lesion in the thyroid ? What features tell us this is benign? Does it have any malignant potential? |