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Progression of solitary and multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma - a retrospective study of 368 patients.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Dec 2012
Zheng Xiang-qian, Wang Chen, Xu Meng, Yu Yang, Yun Xin-wei, Jia Yong-sheng, Wei Song-feng, Ren Xiu-bao, Gao Ming
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BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) represents one of the most frequent endocrine malignancies. Several factors have been found to be involved in determining the outcome of treatment for patients with PTC. Large tumor size, diagnosis at an early age, extra-thyroidal invasion, aggressive histological variants, and distant metastases are the most important determinants of a poor outcome. BRAF(V600E)...
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