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Table of contents
Thyroid - general:anatomy books embryology features to report frozen section grossing histology AJCC / TNM Staging references WHO classification
Cytology
Fine needle aspiration:FNA-general molecular testing in FNA ultrasound
Bethesda system:overview / diagnostic categories adequacy nondiagnostic / unsatisfactory benign AUS / FLUS follicular neoplasm Hürthle cell neoplasm suspicious for malignancy malignant
Congenital / metabolic anomalies:aplasia / hypoplasia branchial pouch / cleft anomalies DiGeorge syndrome ectopic thyroid tissue lateral aberrant thyroid thyroid inclusions lymphoepithelial cyst lysosomal storage diseases parasitic nodule parathyroid tissue solid cell nests / ultimobranchial body remnants thymic tissue thyroglossal duct cyst thyroglossal duct carcinoma
Thyroid endocrine abnormalities:amiodarone induced hyperthyroidism congenital hypothyroidism hyperthyroidism hypothyroidism
Thyroiditis:acute / infectious thyroiditis autoimmune thyroiditis focal lymphocytic thyroiditis Hashimoto thyroiditis Hashimoto-fibrous palpation thyroiditis radiation thyroiditis Riedel thyroiditis silent thyroiditis subacute thyroiditis
Hyperplasia / goiter:amyloid goiter C cell hyperplasia dyshormonogenetic goiter endemic goiter Graves disease multinodular goiter solitary papillary hyperplastic nodule toxic goiter
Other thyroid nonneoplastic:black / pigmented thyroid calcification clear cell change crystals malakoplakia plasma cell granuloma sarcoidosis
Benign thyroid neoplasms:adenolipoma follicular adenoma hyalinizing trabecular tumor postoperative spindle cell nodule Rosai-Dorfman disease solitary fibrous tumor solitary thyroid nodule
Borderline thyroid tumors:FT-UMP (pending) NIFTP WDT-UMP
Thyroid cancer:children molecular pathology basics molecular pathology-practical thyroid cancer-general
Papillary thyroid carcinoma:papillary thyroid carcinoma overview
Main variants:papillary thyroid carcinoma - classic cribriform-morular diffuse sclerosing encapsulated microcarcinoma tall cell
Follicular patterned:follicular variant encapsulated follicular invasive EFVPTC diffuse follicular macrofollicular
Rare variants:clear cell columnar cell fibromatosis / fasciitis-like hobnail oncocytic solid Warthin-like
Other thyroid carcinoma
Main:anaplastic follicular medullary oncocytic (Hürthle cell) tumors poorly differentiated
Rare:ITC / CASTLE MASC mixed medullary-follicular tumors mucoepidermoid sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma with eosinophilia secondary tumors / metastases SETTLE squamous cell carcinoma well differentiated
Other thyroid malignancies:angiosarcoma hemangiopericytoma Langerhans cell histiocytosis lymphoma plasmacytoma sarcoma teratoma thyroblastoma (pending)
Parathyroid - general:anatomy & histology-parathyroid frozen section-parathyroid staging-parathyroid
Parathyroid nonmalignant:ectopic parathyroid tissue hyperparathyroidism other nonneoplastic parathyroid parathyroid adenoma parathyroid gland hyperplasia
Parathyroid malignant:parathyroid carcinoma
Thyroid stains: AE1/AE3 BCL2 beta-catenin BRAF calcitonin CD5 CD117 CEA chromogranin CK19 Congo Red Galectin3 HBME Ki67 mammaglobin p53 p63 PAS PAX8 PTEN thyroglobulin TTF1

Parathyroid stains: chromogranin A GATA3 parafibromin (CDC73) (pending) PTH (parathyroid hormone) synaptophysin thyroglobulin TTF1

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Index (Alphabetical table of contents)
A-E:acute / infectious thyroiditis adenolipoma adequacy AJCC / TNM Staging amiodarone induced hyperthyroidism amyloid goiter anaplastic anatomy anatomy & histology-parathyroid angiosarcoma aplasia / hypoplasia AUS / FLUS autoimmune thyroiditis benign black / pigmented thyroid branchial pouch / cleft anomalies C cell hyperplasia calcification children clear cell clear cell change columnar cell congenital hypothyroidism cribriform-morular crystals diffuse follicular diffuse sclerosing DiGeorge syndrome dyshormonogenetic goiter ectopic parathyroid tissue ectopic thyroid tissue embryology encapsulated encapsulated follicular endemic goiter
F-N:features to report fibromatosis / fasciitis-like FNA-general focal lymphocytic thyroiditis follicular follicular adenoma follicular neoplasm follicular variant frozen section frozen section-parathyroid FT-UMP (pending) Graves disease grossing Hürthle cell neoplasm Hashimoto thyroiditis Hashimoto-fibrous hemangiopericytoma histology hobnail hyalinizing trabecular tumor hyperparathyroidism hyperthyroidism hypothyroidism invasive EFVPTC ITC / CASTLE Langerhans cell histiocytosis lateral aberrant thyroid lymphoepithelial cyst lymphoma lysosomal storage diseases macrofollicular malakoplakia malignant MASC medullary microcarcinoma mixed medullary-follicular tumors molecular pathology basics molecular pathology-practical molecular testing in FNA mucoepidermoid multinodular goiter NIFTP nondiagnostic / unsatisfactory
O-Z:oncocytic oncocytic (Hürthle cell) tumors other nonneoplastic parathyroid overview / diagnostic categories palpation thyroiditis papillary thyroid carcinoma - classic papillary thyroid carcinoma overview parasitic nodule parathyroid adenoma parathyroid carcinoma parathyroid gland hyperplasia parathyroid tissue plasma cell granuloma plasmacytoma poorly differentiated postoperative spindle cell nodule radiation thyroiditis references Riedel thyroiditis Rosai-Dorfman disease sarcoidosis sarcoma sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma with eosinophilia secondary tumors / metastases SETTLE silent thyroiditis solid solid cell nests / ultimobranchial body remnants solitary fibrous tumor solitary papillary hyperplastic nodule solitary thyroid nodule squamous cell carcinoma staging-parathyroid subacute thyroiditis suspicious for malignancy tall cell teratoma thymic tissue thyroblastoma (pending) thyroglossal duct carcinoma thyroglossal duct cyst thyroid cancer-general thyroid inclusions toxic goiter ultrasound Warthin-like WDT-UMP well differentiated WHO classification
Thyroid & parathyroid books

Adeniran: 2016

Ali: 2017

Boerner: 2016

Braverman: 2020

Duick: 2018

Gnepp: 2021

IARC: 2017

Jiang: 2021

Kakudo: 2019

Kini: 2015

Mete: 2016

Mody: 2022

Nikiforov: 2019

Nosé: 2022

Rosai: 2015

Thompson: 2022

Wartofsky: 2016

Wenig: 2015



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