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CytoSleuth Quiz
Non-gynecologic Cytology
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Case 16

View the following images and select the correct diagnosis from the list of differentials given below.

Non-Gyne Case 16 -- Round and round we go ...

From the Cytopathology files of the BC Cancer Agency
Submitted by: Brenda Smith, BSc and Tom Thomson, MD

Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid, left lobe, in a 57 year old male.







Select the correct diagnosis:

Click here to select A A) Papillary thyroid carcinoma

Click here to select B B) Medullary carcinoma

Click here to select C C) Follicular carcinoma

Click here to select D D) Poorly differentiated (insular) thyroid carcinoma