Morphohistochemical character of various cellular elements of normal and goitrous thyroid gland.
There are many ASKANAZY cells in the goitrous the aged patients with the parenchymal dystrophy. The high level of phospholipids in the C-cells can be the basis of a new histochemical test for identification of these cells. The desquamation of the follicular epithelium on the one hand can be the result of the increase of the goitrous thyroids functional activity, on the other hand it can be the expression of the dystrophic processes of the follicular epithelium.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006042:Goiter / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*
D010743:Phospholipids