Figure 1From: Palpable pediatric thyroid abnormalities – diagnostic pitfalls necessitate a high index of clinical suspicion: a case report a. Cytology consistent with papillary thyroid cancer including nuclear size variation, microfollicle cellular arrangement and an intranuclear pseudo-inclusion (arrow). Papanicolaou stain at 400× magnification. b. Final histology showed a papillary carcinoma, follicular variant. There are characteristic nuclear features including ground glass nuclei, inconspicuous nucleoli, thickened nuclear membranes, nuclear pseudoinclusions, and nuclear grooves. This slide also shows a psammoma body. Hematoxylin & Eosin stain at 200× magnification.Back to article page