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Aggressive metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma with anaplastic transformation arising from a long-standing goiter in a patient with Pendred's syndrome.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Oct 2001
Camargo R, Limbert E, Gillam M, Henriques M M, Fernandes C, Catarino A L, Soares J, Alves V A, Kopp P, Medeiros-Neto G
Abstract excerpt
In this article we describe detailed pathological and molecular genetics studies in a consanguineous kindred with Pendred's syndrome. The index patient was a 53-year-old female patient with congenital deafness and goiter. Her parents were first-degree cousins. She had a large goiter (150 g) that had been present since childhood. One of her sisters and a niece are also deaf and have goiter as well. The presence of...
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