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Hereditary medullary thyroid cancer in Slovenia--genotype-phenotype correlations.
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift - 1 Jul 2006
Bergant Damijan, Hocevar Marko, Besic Nikola, Glavac Damjan, Korosec Branka, Caserman Simon
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare endocrine tumor that may be sporadic or inherited in settings of MEN2A, MEN2B and FMTC. Germline point mutations in the RET proto-oncogene are responsible for tumor occurrence, inheritance and great clinical variability. The aim of this study was to correlate the genotype and phenotype of patients with hereditary MTC (age at diagnosis, sex, TNM classification...
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