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[Genetic causes of the thyroid carcinomas].
Casopis lekaru ceskych - 1 Jan 2004
Jindrichová S, Vlcek P, Bendlová B
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid carcinomas represent only 1% of all human malignancies, but more than 90% of endocrine tumors. It can be histologically divided into papillary, follicular, anaplastic or medullary thyroid carcinomas. Here we report the genetic causes of the development of these tumors. For papillary thyroid carcinoma formation of fused genes of tyrosine kinases (RET proto-oncogene, NTRK1 proto-oncogene and met...
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