KROK 1 2014 – Question 38 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 40-year-old female patient has undergone thyroidectomy. Histological study of thyroid gland found the follicles to be of different size and contain foamy colloid, follicle epithelium is high and forms papillae, there is focal lymphocytic infiltration in stroma. Diagnose the thyroid gland disease:
- A. De Quervain’s disease
- B. Nodular goiter
- C. Basedow’s disease
- D. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- E. Riedel’s thyroiditis
Hint
Ask what tall, papillary follicular epithelium with foamy colloid reveals about the functional state of the gland, bearing in mind that the lymphocytes are only focal.
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