Thyroid gland
The thyroid gland is an important little endocrine organ in the anterior neck. It is frequently afflicted by cancer... but the common cancer has such a good prognosis there is debate about how aggressively it should be treated. The cytopathology of the thyroid gland is dealt with in the thyroid cytology article.
The gland frustrates a significant number of pathologists, as the criteria for cancer are considered a bit wishy-washy.
Thyroid specimens
They come in three common varieties
- FNA (fine needle aspiration).
- Done to triage patients/rule-out malignancy - discussed in the article thyroid cytopathology.
- Hemithyroid.
- Done to get a definitive diagnosis.
- May be a "completion" - removal of the other half following definitive diagnosis.
- Total thyroid.
- Done for malignancy or follicular lesion.
Gross pathology
- White nodules - think:
- Lymphoid tissue.
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma - may be calcified.[1]
Diagnoses
Common
- Nodular hyperplasia -- most common.
- Lymphocytic thyroiditis.
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) -- most common cancer.
- Follicular adenoma.
- Follicular thryoid carcinoma.
- Parathyroid tissue.
Pitfalls/weird stuff
- Thyroid tissue lateral to the jugular vein = metastatic PTC... even if it looks benign.
- Hashimoto's disease may have so many lymphocytes that it mimics a lymph node -- may lead to misdiagnosis of PTC.
- Parasitic nodule: clump of thyroid that is attached by a thin thread... but looks like a separate nodule; may lead to misdiagnosis of PTC.
Diagnostic keys
The following should prompt careful examination:[2]
- Architecture: microfollicular, trabecular, solid, insular.
- Thick capsule.
- Necrosis - rare in the thyroid.
Thyroid IHC - general comments
- Not really useful.
- Papers with very small sample sizes abound.
Follicular thyroid carcinoma vs. papillary thyroid carcinoma
- CD31 more frequently positive in follicular lesions.[3]
- CD31 is a marker for microvessel density.
- Galectin-3 thought to be positive in papillary carcinoma.[3]
- HBME-1 thought to be positive in papillary lesions.[4]
Thyroid lesions per WHO
- Adapted from the Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology.[5]
Adenoma
- Follicular adenoma.
- Hyalinizing trabecular tumour.
Carcinoma
- Papillary carcinoma.
- Follicular carinoma.
- Medullary carcinoma.
- Undifferentiated (anaplastic) carcinoma.
- Poorly differentiated carcinoma.
- Squamous cell carcinoma.
- Mucoepidermoid carcinoma.
- Sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma with eosinophilia.
- Mucinous carcinoma.
- Mixed medullary and follicular carinoma.
- Spindle cell tumour with thymus-like differentiation.
- Carcinoma showing thymus-like differentiation.
Others
- Teratoma.
- Lymphoma.
- Ectopic thymoma.
- Angiosarcoma + other soft tissue lesions.
- Paraganglioma.
- Solitary fibrous tumour.
- Follicular dendritic cell tumour.
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
- Metastasis.
Parathyroid glands
- May make an appearance in the context of thyroid surgery.
Benign
Solid cell nest of thyroid
General
- Embryonic remnants endodermal origin.[6]
- Incidental finding.
Microscopic
Features:[6]
- Solid or cystic cluster or variable size.
- Cuboidal-to-columnar morphology.
- Eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- Round/ovoid nuclei with finely granular chromatin.
- +/-Goblet cells (~30% of cases).[7]
Images:
DDx:[6]
- C-cell hyperplasia.
- Medullary carcinoma.
- Squamous lesions.
IHC
Features:[6]
- p63 +ve.
- -ve in clear cells.
- CEA +ve (polyconal).[7]
- +ve also in clear cells.
Thyroid gland nodular hyperplasia
General
- Clinical diagnosis: goitre, AKA sporadic goitre, AKA multinodular goitre (MNG).
- Most common diagnosis in the thyroid.
- If you've seen a handful of thyroids you've seen this.
Notes:
- Large lesions may be clonal; however, this is clinically irrelevant.
Microscopic
Features:
- Follicles of variable size - key feature.
- Should be obvious at low power, i.e. ~2.5x objective.
- Nodules maybe well circumscribed (on gross), but do not have a thick fibrous capsule.
Negatives:
- No nuclear features suggestive of malignancy (at lower power).
- One should not look at high power.
- Not cellular.
Follicular thyroid adenoma
General
- Most common neoplasm of thyroid.[8]
- Encapusled lesion (surrounded by fibrous capsule).
Gross
- Thick capsule.
Notes:
- The entire capsule should be submitted.[9]
- A good start for most thyroid specimens with a thick capsule is 10 blocks.
Microsopic
Features:
- Cellular.
- Thick capsule - key feature.
Negatives.
- No invasion of the capsule (see follicular thyroid carcinoma section).
- No nuclear features suggestive of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Graves disease
General
- Often misspelled "Grave's disease".
- Autoimmune disease leading to hyperthyroidism.
- Eye problems not resolved with thyroid removal. (???)
- Higher risk of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Gross
Features:[10]
- Enlarged 50-150 g.
- "Beefy-red" appearance, looks like raw beef.
Microscopic
Features:
- Classic:
- Hypercellular
- Patchy lymphocytes.
- Little colloid.
- Scalloping of colloid; colloid has undulating border.
- Non-specific finding.
- +/-Nuclear clearing.
- +/-Papillae (may mimic papillary thyroid carcinoma in this respect).
Notes:
- Usually has an unimpressive appearance... as it is treated, i.e. history is important.
- Nuclear clearing and papillae are usu. diffuse in Graves disease - unlike in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Image:
Idiopathic granulomatous thyroiditis
- AKA granulomatous thyroiditis - non-specific term; granulomas may be due a number of causes.
- AKA subacute thyroiditis.
- AKA de Quervain thyroiditis.
- Should not be confused with de Quervain's disease (AKA gamer's thumb) something completely unrelated to the thyroid.
General
- Women > men.
- Etiology: possibly viral.[12]
Microscopic
- Granulomas with multinucleated giant cells - usu. with engulfed colloid.
- Lymphocytes.
- Plasma cells.
- +/-Fibrosis.
DDx:
- Infectious granulomatous disease (fungal, microbacterial).
- Palpation thyroiditis.
- Sarcoidosis (classically intrafollicular distribution).
Images:
Stains
- ZN -ve.
- GMS -ve.
Palpation thyroiditis
General
- Granulomatous inflammation due to palpation.
- Incidence of granulomas higher in surgical thyroid specimens than autopsies.[12]
Microscopic
Features:[12]
- Granulomas involving the follicle.
- Histiocytes within the colloid.
DDx:
- Idiopathic granulomatous thyroiditis.
- Sarcoidosis.
- Infectious granulomatous thyroiditis.
Stains
- ZN -ve.
- GMS -ve.
Riedel thyroiditis
General
Clinical features:[14]
- Extremely rare.
- Women > men.
- Usually smokers.
- May be associated with retroperitoneal fibrosis.
- May be hypothyroid.
- +/-Obstructive symptoms.
Microscopic
Features:
- Fibrosis.
- Specimen often fragmented as it was difficult to remove.
DDx:
- Anaplastic carcinoma, spindle cell variant.
Hashimoto thyroiditis
General
- This is a clinical diagnosis.
- The histomorphologic findings, generally, are not diagnostic.
Etiology:
- Autoimmune disease leading to hypothyroidism.
- Often genetic/part of a syndrome.
Associations:[15]
- Antimicrosomal (antithyroid peroxidase) +ve.
- Antithyroglobulin +ve.
- Increased risk of B-cell lymphoma.
Microscopic
Features:
- Lymphocytic infiltrate - key feature.
- Nuclear clearing common.
- May confuse with papillary thyroid carcinoma.
- Polymorphous lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate with germinal centres.[16]
- +/-Oncocytic metaplasia.
Notes:
- Histologically often not possible to separate from "non-specific" thyroiditis.[17]
DDx:
C-cell hyperplasia
General
- Screening for C-cell hyperplasia/medullary thyroid carcinoma done with serum calcitonin level.[18]
Gross
- Not visible.
Microscopic
Features:
- Location:[19]
- Mid portion of lobe to upper third of lobe.
- Not at the poles.
- Not in the isthmus.
- Mid portion of lobe to upper third of lobe.
- Definitions vary.[20]
One definition - either of the following:[18]
- >50 C-cells per low-power field (x100).
- This part of the definition suffers from LPFitis. The paper should have been rejected.
- Confined to the thyroid gland and no larger than 10 mm in greatest dimension.
Another definition:
- Invasion of the basement membrane with stromal reaction.
A third definition:
- "Several clusters" of more than six C cells.
Images:
Malignant neoplasm
There are a bunch of 'em. The most common, by far, is papillary.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
- Abbreviated PTC.
General
Medical school memory device P's:
- Palpable nodes.
- Popular (most common malignant neoplasm of the thyroid).
- Prognosis is good.
- Pre-Tx iodine scan.
- Post-Sx iodine scan.
- Psammoma bodies.
Notes:
- PTC is associated with radiation exposure.[21]
- Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma is defined as a tumour with a maximal dimension of 1.0 cm or less.[22]
Prognosis can be predicted by MAICS score - which includes:[23]
- Metastases.
- Age.
- Invasion of surround tissues.
- Ccompleteness of excision.
- Size of tumour.
Microscopic
Features:
- Nuclear changes - key feature.
- "Shrivelled nuclei"/"raisin" like nuclei, nuclei with a wavy nuclear membrane -- usu. easy to find.
- Nuclear inclusions - usu. harder to find; have high specificity.
- Nuclear grooves.
- Nuclear clearing (only on permanent section) - also known as "Orphan Annie eyes".
- Overlap of nuclei - "cells do not respect each other's borders" (easy to see at key feature at low power).
- Classically has papillae (nipple-like shape); papilla (definition): epithelium on fibrovascular core.
- Absence of papillae does not exclude diagnosis.
- Psammoma bodies.
- Circular, acellular, eosinophilic whorled bodies.
- Not necessary to make diagnosis - but very specific in the context of a specimen labeled "thyroid".
- Arise from infarction & calcification of papilla tips.[24]
Notes:
- Psammoma bodies are awesome if you see 'em, i.e. useful for arriving at the diagnosis.
- If there are no papillae structures -- you're unlikely to see psammoma bodies.
- At low power look for cellular areas/loss of follicles.
- Nuclear clearing seen in:
- Nuclear overlapping is easy to see at lower power-- should be the tip-off to look at high power for nuclear features.
- Nuclear inclusions are quite rare and not required to make the diagnosis -- but a very convincing feature if seen.
- Papillae may be seen in Graves disease.
Subtypes of papillary thyroid carcinoma
There are many.
Poor prognosis variants:
- Tall cell variant.[26]
- Columnar cell variant.[26]
- Solid variant.[26]
- Diffuse sclerosing variant.[27]
Papillary thyroid carcinoma tall cell variant
General
- ~10% of PTC.[28]
- Often large > 6 cm.
Microscopic
Features:[29]
- 50% of cells with height 2x the width.[30][31]
- Eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- Well-defined cell borders.
- Nucleus stratified; basal location, i.e. closer to the basement membrane.
Negative:
- Nuclei not pseudostratified, if pseudostratified consider columnar cell variant.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma columnar cell variant
General
Epidemiology:
- Poor prognosis.
- Very rare.
Microscopic
Features:[33]
- Elongated nuclei (similar to colorectal adenocarcinoma) - key feature.
- +/-Pseudostratification of the nuclei (like in colorectal adenocarcinoma), differentiates from tall cell variant.
- Nuclear stratification - key feature.
- "Minimal" papillary features.
- "Tall cells".
- Clear-eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- Mitoses common.
Image: Columnar variant PTC (wiley.com).
Papillary thyroid carcinoma follicular variant
General
- May be confused with follicular carcinoma or follicular adenoma.
Microscopic
Features:
- Prominent follicles.
- Typically have less nuclear pseudoinclusions than the conventional type.
- +/-Capsule.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma cribriform-morular variant
General
- Associated with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP).[34]
Microscopic
Features:
- Cribriform architectural pattern.
- Morules - balls of tissue.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma diffuse sclerosing variant
General
- Usually young adults, children.
Microscopic
Features:[35]
- Papillae - usu. prominent.
- Squamous morules - key features.[36]
- Lymphocytes - abundant.
- Fibrosis.
DDx:
- Lymphocytic thyroiditis (esp. Hashimoto's thyroiditis).
Papillary thyroid carcinoma warthin-like variant
- Resemble Warthin tumour.
Microscopic
Features:[33]
- Eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- Lymphocytic thyroiditis.
- Papillae.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma solid variant
Features:[26]
- Some studies suggest this has a poor prognosis.
- More common in children.
- Associated with Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Microscopic
Features:
- Solid sheets >50% of tumour mass.[26]
IHC
- Thyroglobulin +ve.
- TTF-1 (thyroid transcription factor-1) +ve.
- CD15 +ve. (???)
Molecular
- Currently not widely used in a diagnostic context.
Tabular summary
Molecular changes in papillary thyroid carcinoma as per Adeniran et al:[37]
Molecular change | Frequency | Histology | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
BRAF point mutations | ~ 40% | tall cell variant | poorer prognosis, older individuals |
RET/PTC rearrangments | ~ 20% | papillary architecture, psammoma bodies | younger individuals |
RAS point mutations | ~ 15% | exclusively follicular variant | - |
Insular carcinoma
General
Features:[38]
- Rare - approximately 5% of all thyroid carcinomas.
- Thought to be a separate tumour from papillary thyroid carcinoma and follicular thyroid carcinoma with a focal insular pattern.
- Some lump this entity with papillary carcinoma, i.e. consider it a variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Microscopic
Features:[38]
- Islands of cells - key feature.
- Scant cytoplasm.
- Nuclei monomorphic and round.
DDx:[39]
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma.
- Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
Follicular thyroid carcinoma
- AKA follicular carcinoma.
Clinical
Medical school memory device 4 Fs:
- FNA NOT diagnosable.
- Far away mets (sometimes).
- Female predominant.
- Favourable prognosis.
Notes:
- Usu. has a hematologic spread.
- PTC usu. spread via lymphatics.
Microscopic
Features:
- Defined by either:
- Invasion through the capsule:
- Should be all the way through.[40]
- 1/2 does not count.
- Fibrous reaction does not count.
- "Above the contour" does not count.
- Should be all the way through.[40]
- Vascular invasion (all of the following):
- In a small vein (not a capillary), that is outside of the tumour mass.
- Tumour adherent to the side of the vessel.
- Tumour must be re-endothelialized.
- Invasion through the capsule:
Notes:
- Impossible to differentiate from follicular adenoma on FNA (no cytologic differences).
- Described as "over-diagnosed" ... misdiagnoses: PTC follicular variant, follicular adenoma, multinodular goitre with a thick capsule.
Images:
Medullary thyroid carcinoma
- Abbreviated MTC.
General
Medical school memory device - 3 M's:
- aMyloid.
- Median node dissection done.
- MEN IIa syndrome/MEN IIb syndrome.
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma.
- Pheochromocytoma.
- Parathyroid adenoma.
Epidemiology:
- Very rare.
- Poor prognosis.
- May be genetic (MEN IIa/b syndrome).
- Arises from C cells (which produce calcitonin).
Syndromic tumours - typically:[41]
- Present in 30s or 40s.
- +/-Multifocal.
- +/-Bilateral.
- C-cell hyperplasia.
Gross
Features:[41]
- Usu. well-circumscribed.
- White, gray or yellow.
- Gritty.
- Firm.
Image:
Microscopic
Features:
- Nuclei with "neuroendocrine features".
- Small, round nuclei.
- Coarse chromatin (salt and pepper nuclei).
- +/-Amyloid deposits - fluffy appearing acellular eosinophilic material in the cytoplasm.
- +/-C-cell hyperplasia - seen with familial forms of MTC.
- C cells (AKA parafollicular cell): abundant cytoplasm - clear/pale.
Note:
- The amyloid is formed from calcitonin.[42]
Images:
- www:
- WC:
IHC
Features:[43]
- Calcitonin +ve - it arises from C cells (which produce calcitonin).
- Congo-red +ve (amyloid present) - mnemonic: CRAP -- congo red amyloid protein.
- Neuroendocrine markers.
- CEA +ve (often better staining than calcitonin).[44]
- Thyroglobulin usu. -ve.[45]
EM
- Neurosecretory granules.
- Feature seen in neuroendocrine tumours.
Images: Neurosecretory granules (ucsf.edu).
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma
Epidemiology
- Very rare.
- Horrible prognosis.
- Often presents with obstruction.
- Typically there is a history of a thyroid mass.
Microscopic
Features:
Notes:
- May have features of other thyroid carcinomas, e.g. psammoma bodies, papillae, nuclear changes of PTC.
Image: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma with a component of papillary thyroid carcinoma (WC).
DDx:
IHC
- Keratin (AE1/AE3) +ve.
- Vimentin +ve, >90%.[46]
- Thyroglobulin - rarely +ve (~15%).[46]
- CEA -ve, calcitonin -ve; to r/o medullary.
- p53 +ve.
- TTF-1 +ve.
Lymphomas of the thyroid
General
- Rare.
- Increased risk with chronic inflammatory conditions.
- Fit in the the greater category of MALT lymphoma.
Microscopic
Features:
- Lymphoepithelial lesion - key feature.
- Plasma cells.
- "Overgrowth" - thyroid parenchyma displaced by lymphocytes.
Weird stuff
Hyalinizing trabecular tumour
- AKA hyalinizing trabecular adenoma.
- Abbreviated HTT.
General
- Considered by some (e.g. Silvia Asa) to be a variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.[47]
- Behaviour similar to papillary thyroid carcinoma - indolent.
Microscopic
Features:
- Trabecular arrangement of cells.
- May have "curved" trabeculae.
- Extracellular space has hyaline material - key feature.
- Cytoplasm mimics hyaline material in the extracellular space.
Images:
DDx:
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma (if one believes this is a separate entity).
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma - not trabecular, nuclei not PTC-like.
- Paraganglioma.[50]
IHC
- Thyroglobulin +ve.
- NSE +ve.
Hürthle cell neoplasm
- AKA oncocytic neoplasm.
- Also spelled Hurthle cell neoplasm.
General
- Incidence: uncommon.
- This is a general category - includes:
- Hürthle cell adenoma.
- Hürthle cell carcinoma.
- Some advocate total thyroidectomy for all Hürthle cell neoplasms, as it is difficult to reliably differentiate adenomas and carcinomas.[51]
- It can be understood as a special type of follicular neoplasm (including follicular thyroid adenoma and follicular thyroid carcinoma).[52]
Adenoma vs. carcinoma
Suggestive for carcinoma:[51]
- Male.
- >4 cm
- Adenomas usu. <3 cm.
Definite for carcinoma:[51]
- Lymphovascular invasion.
- Capsular invasion.
Gross
- Yellow.
- Encapsulated.
Microscopic
Features:[52]
- Oncocytes >= 75% of cells:
- Abundant granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- Round regular nucleus +/- prominent nucleolus.
- +/-Degenerative changes.
Negatives:
- Lack nuclear features of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
- Lack features of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
DDx:[53]
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma oncocytic variant.
- Medullary thyroid carcinoma oncocytic variant.
- Others.
Minocycline associated thyroid pigmentation
- AKA minocycline thyroid.
General
- Benign pigmentation of the thyroid due to minocycline, an antibiotic.
- Reported at other sites, e.g. heart valves,[54] coronary arteries.
Gross
- Black thyroid.[55]
Images:
- Pigmented thyroid gland (rheumatology.org).
- Minocycline thyroid - gross and microscopic (archivesofpathology.org).[56]
Microscopic
Features:
- Granular yellow blobs:
- Location:
- Intracytoplasmic in the follicule-lining cells, i.e. follicular cells.
- Intrafollicular.
- Variable size ~0.5-4 micrometers.
- Location:
Notes:
- Pigment described as lipofuscin-like.[57]
Images:
- Pigmentation due to minocycline (flylib.com).[58]
- Minocycline thyroid - gross and microscopic (archivesofpathology.org).[56]
Stains
- Fontana-Masson stain +ve.[54]
See also
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