CYTOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTOPERATIVE METASTASES OF PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY RADIOIODINE REFRACTORINESS

Radioiodine refractoriness is the main problem in the diagnosis and treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma. The aim of the study was to investigate the cytological and immunocytochemical changes of thyrocytes in fine-needle aspiration smears of thyroid papillary cancer metastases in the course of the development of secondary radioiodine resistance. A total of 70 postoperative metastases of thyroid papillary cancer (secondary radioiodine refractory metastases, previously responsive to radioiodine, that eventually loses the ability to radioiodine accumulation, radioiodine-avid metastases, primary radioiodine-refractory metastases), immunohistochemical staining of thyroid peroxidase, thyroglobulin, cytokeratin 17 and cytological analysis were performed. Revealing the presence of specific cellular phenotypes and structures in punctuates, a low percentage of thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin-positive thyrocytes allows the development of the method of cytological prediction of the radioiodine therapy effectiveness.

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Zelinskaya, A., Kvachenyuk, A., Kulinichenko, G., & Moroz, V. (2020). CYTOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTOPERATIVE METASTASES OF PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY RADIOIODINE REFRACTORINESS. EUREKA: Life Sciences, 0(1), 3-10. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.21303/2504-5695.2020.001117