Thyroid nodule causes
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Overview
Causes
- Benign thyroid nodule cause:
- Multinodular (sporadic) goiter ("colloid adenoma")
- Hashimoto's (chronic lymphocytic) thyroiditis
- Cysts (colloid, simple, or hemorrhagic)
- Follicular adenomas
- Macrofollicular adenomas
- Microfollicular or cellular adenomas
- Hürthle cell (oxyphil cell) adenomas
- Macro- or microfollicular patterns
- Malignant thyroid nodule causes:
- Papillary carcinoma
- Follicular carcinoma
- Minimally or widely invasive
- Oxyphilic (Hürthle cell) type
- Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features
- Medullary carcinoma
- Anaplastic carcinoma
- Primary thyroid lymphoma
- Metastatic carcinoma (breast, renal cell, others)