Fig. 1: Papillary thyroid carcinoma with desmoid-type fibromatosis showing. | Modern Pathology

Fig. 1: Papillary thyroid carcinoma with desmoid-type fibromatosis showing.

From: Papillary thyroid carcinoma with prominent myofibroblastic stromal component: clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical and next-generation sequencing study of seven cases

Fig. 1

a Islands of classical papillary thyroid carcinoma surrounded by desmoid-type fibromatosis (case 1); b Islands of follicular patterned thyroid carcinoma (follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma) surrounded by a fibroblastic appearing spindle cell proliferation (case 6); c Higher magnification from stromal component (Case 3) showing fascicles of bland-appearing spindle cells with evenly distributed nuclei embedded in a collagenous stroma; d Large keloidal collagen fibers seen separating the spindle cells were seen in one case (Case 2).

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