📢We continue to study thyroid cytology. 🔬A macrofollicle (left), consisting of numerous follicular cells arranged in an orderly fashion around watery colloid, is easily distinguished from a microfollicle (right), which consists of a small ring of a few follicular cells with a central droplet of dense colloid. (Stain, Papanicolaou.) Source: Douglas P. Clark - Thyroid Cytopathology, 2010
Thyroid Cytology: Microfollicles and Macrofollicles
Cytological differences between thyroid macrofollicles and microfollicles: structural features of follicular cells and colloid with Papanicolaou stain.
