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Analysis of differential BRAF(V600E) mutational status in multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma: evidence of independent clonal origin in distinct tumor foci.
Cancer - 15 Oct 2006
Park So Yeon, Park Young Joo, Lee Yu Jin, Lee Hyun Sook, Choi Sung Hee, Choe Gheeyoung, Jang Hak-Chul, Park Seong Hoe, Park Do Joon, Cho Bo Youn
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BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid cancers often occur as multiple foci. Multifocal cancers have been considered to have a poor prognosis because they are thought to be the consequence of intrathyroidal spread of the papillary cancer. However, to the authors' knowledge there has been little investigation into whether multifocal thyroid papillary carcinomas arise from the intrathyroidal spread of a single carcinoma or...
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