KROK 1 2017 – Question 71 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 40-year-old woman 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 the stroma. Diagnose the thyroid gland disease:
- A. Nodular goiter
- B. De Quervain’s disease
- C. Riedel’s thyroiditis
- D. Basedow’s disease
- E. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Hint
Interpret tall papillary follicular epithelium with foamy colloid as a sign of the gland's functional state, then check how extensive the lymphocytic infiltrate is.
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