In clinical practice, cases of metastatic thyroid disease are infrequent, and the symptoms of this disease are nonspecific, which can lead to errors in diagnosis. One of the most common secondary malignant neoplasms of the thyroid gland is renal cell carcinoma. Over the past few decades, fine needle aspiration biopsy has been considered as the main method of differential diagnosis of thyroid lesions, which determines the further tactics of patient management. Verification of a metastatic thyroid lesion can be a difficult task for a cytologist, especially if the time interval from the moment of detection of the primary lesion is quite long. This article presents cases of cytological diagnosis of metastatic thyroid lesions from patients with renal cell carcinoma.
Svetlana V. Smetanina – сandidate of мedical sciences, Head of the Cytological Laboratory Novgorod Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary. Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Evgeniya Yu. Uskova – doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics of cytological laboratory Novgorod Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary. Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elena N. Slavnova – doctor of мedical sciences, Leading Researcher at the Department of Oncocytology P.A. Herzen Moscow Oncology Research Institute - National Medical Radiology Research Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Svetlana B. Korol'kova – doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics of cytological laboratory Novgorod Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary. Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Margarita B. Danyaeva – doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics of cytological laboratory Novgorod Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary. Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kseniya Yu. Zaharova – doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics of cytological laboratory Novgorod Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary. Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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