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fat-containing anomalies of the thyroid gland

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Examples

- adenolipoma
- diffuse thyrolipomatosis
- follicular adenoma ( thyrolipoma )

  • it can involve both follicular adenomas and the surrounding thyroid tissue.

- cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma PTC harbouring mature fat in the stroma
- lipomatous tissue in thyroid amyloidosis
-  thyroid gland nodule with mature fat papillary hyperplasia and focal atypia

Open references

- A Very Unusual Thyroid Tumor: a Nodule with Mature Fat Papillary Hyperplasia and Focal Atypia. 2013. doi : 10.4081/rt.2013.e50