Papillary endothelial hyperplasia in the thyroid following fine-needle aspiration.

Axiotis, C A; Merino, M J; Ain, K; Norton, J A · Arch Pathol Lab Med · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

A 74-year-old woman was found to have exuberant papillary endothelial hyperplasia within her thyroid gland subsequent to multiple fine-needle aspiration biopsies of a Hürthle cell neoplasm. To our knowledge, this histologic alteration in the thyroid has not been previously reported. We describe this unusual complication following fine-needle aspiration, and we delineate the clinicopathologic and differential diagnostic features.

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