Article
[Prophylactic thyroid surgery].
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen - 1 Jan 2006
Frilling A, Weber F
Abstract excerpt
Early diagnosis for thyroid carcinoma, potentially before neoplastic transformation has taken place, would allow preventive and thus curative surgical intervention. Identifying and characterizing the RET proto-oncogene as the disease-causing gene for hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma and then establishing a genotype-phenotype correlation served as the prerequisite for the risk-adapted prophylactic surgical...
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