title: [Punctate cytology of benign and malignant changes in the thyroid gland (author's transl)].
abstract: 80 thyroid gland aspirates obtained post-operatively were compared with 69 clinically punctured cases. The results suggest that the vast majority of cytological misdiagnoses are caused by a faulty withdrawal technique. As a contribution to the differential diagnosis of "follicular neoplasia" an attempt was made to introduce the diameter of the nucelus obtained morphometrically as a parameter of malignancy. In aspirates of highly differentiated follicular carcinomas a significantly higher percentage of thyrocytes with larger nuclear diameters are found than in benign nodular changes in the thyroid gland.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D000236:Adenoma / Q000473:pathology; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006042:Goiter / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D013048:Specimen Handling; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Punktatzytologie benigner und maligner Schilddrüsen-veränderungen