Thyroid spindle-cell tumor with mucous cysts. An intrathyroid thymoma?
An apparently new tumor entity of the thyroid is reported. The tumor was histologically characterized by good demarcation, lobular pattern, keratin-positive spindle cells, glandular elements, stromal hyalinization, and calcifications. These findings are suggestive of a tumor related to spindle-cell thymoma and apparently closely related to the recently described entity, ectopic hamartomatous thymoma. The patient, a 23-year-old man is alive and well 10 years after diagnosis. Two histologically similar cases have earlier been reported in the English literature under the heading "malignant teratoma."
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D013945:Thymoma / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*