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Familial thyroid neoplasia: impact of technological advances on detection and monitoring.
Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity - 1 Oct 2010
Tran Theresa, Gianoukakis Andrew G
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To weigh the clinical impact of new technological insights into heritable thyroid malignancies. RECENT FINDINGS: Medullary thyroid carcinoma and familial nonmedullary thyroid cancers represent the small minority of thyroid cancers that are inherited. New insights into the genetic alterations and molecular mechanisms implicated in these tumors are serving to refine the clinical tools available...
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