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Case Reports
. 2023 Sep 4:20:33.
doi: 10.25259/Cytojournal_26_2022. eCollection 2023.

Unusual case of parietal scalp swelling without palpable swelling in head and neck region

Priyanka Gautam  1 , Anshi Singh  1 , Vikas Shrivastava  1 , Divya Singh  1 , Mukul Singh  2 , Brijnandan Gupta  1
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Unusual case of parietal scalp swelling without palpable swelling in head and neck region

Priyanka Gautam et al. Cytojournal. .
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Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(a) Swelling over the left parietal scalp region; (b) contrast-enhanced computed tomography brain shows destructive mildly enhancing bony mass lesion; (c) aspirate from scalp swelling showing round cells with moderate amount of cytoplasm in sheets and groups with mild nuclear atypia (× 400, Papanicolaou stain); and (d) round cells arranged in small groups and clusters with central nuclei and moderate amount of granular cytoplasm (×400, May–Grunwald– Giemsa stain).
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
(a) May–Grunwald–Giemsa stained smear from scalp swelling showing the cohesive sheet of round cells with large central nuclei and moderate granular cytoplasm. Occasional binucleation also noted (×400) and (b) Papanicolaou stained smear showing round cells with moderate amount of granular cytoplasm in sheet with well-defined cell border (×400).
Figure 3:
Figure 3:
(a and b) Aspirate from thyroid showing the sheet of Hurthle cells with moderate amount of granular cytoplasm in sheet with well-defined cell border with central round nucleus and occasional binucleation (×400).
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