“…However, these are seen in other benign and malignant conditions of the thyroid, including chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, nodular hyperplasia, hyalinizing trabecular adenoma, Hürthle cell tumor, and medullary thyroid carcinoma [11,12,13]. Some nodular hyperplasias have cytopathological features similar to those of PTC, such as papillary clusters, nuclear atypia including intranuclear grooves, and poorly formed intranuclear pseudoinclusions [6,14]. Overlap of these cytopathological features is reported in about 17% of cases with nodular hyperplasia [15].…”