Endocrine Pathology — Flashcards

On histology, patients with postpartum thyroiditis exhibit a _____ infiltrate with occasional germinal center formation

A _____ pattern of chromaffin nests is diagnostic for paraganglioma or pheochromocytoma

Hashimoto thyroiditis is associated with HLA-_____ and HLA-DR5

Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is the bilateral _____ necrosis of the adrenal glands, causing the gland to look like a "sack of blood"

_____ is the most common tumor of the adrenal medulla in adults

Papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMs) are defined as PTCs with a maximum diameter of _____ mm and are non-palpable.

In thyroid medullary carcinoma, calcitonin often deposits within the tumor as _____, which may be visualized with a congo red stain

Which criteria should be met to classify a differentiated thyroid cancer as low risk? - Age < _____ years (better prognosis) - Unifocal lesion - Size < 2 cm - No lymphovascular invasion - No capsular invasion

Exposure to _____ in childhood is a major risk factor for thyroid papillary carcinoma

Thyroid _____ carcinoma may have psammoma bodies on biopsy, which are characterized by concentric layers of calcification