Fine needle aspiration biopsy of parathyroid; is it meaningful? A cytologic study of 81 cases with histological and clinical correlations.
Elwira Bakuła-ZalewskaJoanna DługosińskaAgata Stanek-WideraPiotr GóralskiJacek GałczyńskiAgnieszka ŻyłkaMonika DurzyńskaMarek DedecjusPublished in: Cytopathology : official journal of the British Society for Clinical Cytology (2024)
High cellularity scattered naked nuclei, cribriform and three-dimensional patterns, stippled chromatin and oxyphilic cytoplasm are cytomorphologic features that favour parathyroid origin. A combination of these features with FNA-PTH assay and/or GATA3, PTH, and chromogranin-A immunostainings on cytologic specimens aid in the identification of parathyroid glands and the distinguishing of parathyroid from thyroid lesions.