Abstract:Background:- It is very rare that cytological diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma by FNAC could not be conrmed by histological evaluation.
One of the reasons for positive cytological nding and negative histological nding of papillary thyroid carcinoma is false positive diagnosis.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis an autoimmune disease can be so extensive may mimic as papillary thyroid carcinoma because it may cause massive
destruction of thyroid gland and may show similar nuclear features like Ptc. A Case Report… Show more
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