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Villous papillary thyroid carcinoma: a variant associated with marfan syndrome.
Endocrine pathology - 1 Dec 2012
Winer Daniel A, Winer Shawn, Rotstein Lorne, Asa Sylvia L, Mete Ozgur
Abstract excerpt
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disorder of connective tissue associated with perturbations in transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) biology, most often due to mutations in FBN1 gene that encodes fibrillin-1. To our knowledge, there is no known association of MFS with thyroid carcinoma. We report a 46-year-old man with known history of MFS who developed an unusual histological variant of...
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