Unusual thyroid carcinoma with excessive extracellular hyaline globules: a case of "hyalinizing papillary carcinoma".

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We present an unusual case of papillary thyroid carcinoma in a 47-year-old Japanese woman. The tumor, 0.8 cm in diameter, was located in the upper left lobe of the thyroid. Histologically, we observed a microfollicular-like and trabecular arrangement of the tumor cells with marked hyalinized stroma and hyaline globules. Immunohistochemically, tumor cells were positive for thyroglobulin and thyroid transcription...

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