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BRAF mutation in the elderly submitted to thyroidectomy.
Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes - 1 Jan 2000
Bertelli Antonio Augusto T, Gonçalves Antonio José, Menezes Marcelo B, Melo Murilo R, Tincani Stefano, Massarollo Luiz Cláudio Bosco
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency of the BRAF V600E mutation in patients over 65 years of age undergoing thyroidectomy, correlating its presence or absence with the different histologic lesions, their variants and with prognostic factors of papillary carcinoma. METHODS: We evaluated 85 patients over 65 years of age who underwent thyroidectomy, analyzing the BRAF V600E mutation by RT-PCR performed after DNA...
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