Histopathologic pattern of thyroid disease

Pattern Recognition in Thyroid and Lung Disease

Explanation: As per the new pathology classification of adenocarcinomas of the lung (reference by Travis et al below) the term bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma (BAC) has been eliminated and has been replaced with “carcinoma in situ”, a pre-invasive lesion, therefore A is incorrect. Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH), another pre-invasive lesion, appears as a pure groundglass nodule without...

Histopathologic pattern and clinical features of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the histopathologic pattern and clinical features of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) according to the American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society consensus classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING Two thousand-bed, university-affiliated, tertia...

FNA STUDY OF 377 THYROID NODULES: A CYTOAND HISTOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATIVE STUDY

377 patients with single thyroid nodule who clinically were candidates for surgery, were selected from the patients that referred to the clinics of endocrinology at Namazee Hospital, Shiraz Medical School. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) was carried out without performing thyroid scan and the results were compared with histology obtained by surgery to establish its accuracy in our center. whic...

ACUPUNCTURE AND THYROID DISEASE About thyroid disease

Overt hypothyroidism is diagnosed by a serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) concentration above the normal reference range and a serum free thyroxine (FT4) concentration below the reference range (BTA 2006). Clinical features may be absent or present. Subclinical hypothyroidism is diagnosed by a TSH concentration above the reference range with an FT4 concentration within the reference range ...

A Comparative Study on Histopathologic Effects of Iranian Newcastle Disease Virus Isolates