Thyroid & parathyroid

Thyroiditis

Focal lymphocytic thyroiditis



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Shahid Islam, M.D., Ph.D.
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Cite this page: Islam S. Focal lymphocytic thyroiditis. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/thyroidfocallymphocytic.html. Accessed March 29th, 2024.
Definition / general
  • Focal lymphocytes in thyroid gland
  • Usually an incidental finding
Epidemiology
Clinical features
  • Associated with low levels of antithyroid antibodies, lack of clinical symptoms
  • May be early or mild form of autoimmune thyroiditis (J Clin Pathol 1969;22:326)
Treatment
  • None
Gross description
  • No findings
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Focal aggregates of lymphocytes in inter- or intralobular fibrous tissue
  • No oxyphilic metaplasia, no follicular atrophy, no follicular disruption
  • May be associated with other thyroid disease
Microscopic (histologic) images

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Patchy lymphocytic inflammation

Small and large lymphocytes,
occasional plasma cells

Electron microscopy description
Electron microscopy images

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Coarsely
condensed
chromatin at
nuclear periphery

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