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Diagnosis and management of differentiated thyroid cancer using molecular biology.
The Laryngoscope - 1 Apr 2013
Witt Robert L, Ferris Robert L, Pribitkin Edmund A, Sherman Steven I, Steward David L, Nikiforov Yuri E
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OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To define molecular biology in clinical practice for diagnosis, surgical management, and prognostication of differentiated thyroid cancer. DATA SOURCES: Ovid Medline 2006-2012 REVIEW METHODS: Manuscripts with clinical correlates. RESULTS: Papillary thyroid carcinomas harbor point mutations of the BRAF and RAS genes or RET/PTC rearrangements, all of which activate the mitogen-activated...
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