… The tall cell (TC) variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is more aggressive than classic
PTC, but the percentage of TC necessary to diagnose this variant has been debated. We …

… Twenty-four cases of the tall cell variant (TCV), a subset of … that TCV is an aggressive
malignancy warranting appropriate … more aggressive clinical course, including the tall cell variant …

… with focal tall cell change, 35 with the tall cell variant and 104 … those with focal tall cell change
and tall cell variants. Regarding … of tall cell change within a PTC portend more aggressive …

There are still ongoing debates as to which cut-off percentage of tall cell (TC) should be used
to define tall cell variant (TCV) papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). In this meta-analysis, we …

… tall cells were defined as tall columnar cells whose height was at least three times their width.
A tumor was classified as TCV PTC if it contained ≥50% tall cells … follicular variant of PTC …

… aggressive forms of PTC do occur although at a much lower frequency than classical PTC
(1). The most common of the aggressive variants of PTC is the tall cell variant (… by cells whose …

… The tall cell variant of papillary thyroid … The tall cell variant is the most common aggressive
variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (Table 2). Depending on the report, the tall cell variant …

… histological variants associated with a different rate of aggressive … The tall cell variant of PTC
(TCPTC), characterized by cells … taller than wide, is the most common among the aggressive …

… Histologically, they had islands of squamous cells with spindle cell areas (two of eight). In
four of eight cases, SCT was associated with the tall cell variant of papillary carcinoma (TCV). …

… In conclusion, PTCs with more than 10% tall cells show more aggressive clinicopathologic
features than classic PTCs regardless of tumor size and age. Classic PTCs with TCF have a …