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chewing-gum colloid

A term of art used by some cytopathologists to describe the dense pink colloid that is often seen in fine-needle aspiration cytology specimens from thyroids with follicular variant of papillary carcinoma.

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Chewing-gum colloid seen in papillary carcinoma and the hyalinised stroma seen in HTT are indistinguishable in cytology and hence misinterpreted to be thick colloid.

Hyalinising trabecular tumour of the thyroid gland--a diagnostic challenge

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