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Molecular and histopathologic characteristics of multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma.
The American journal of surgical pathology - 1 Oct 2013
Bansal Mona, Gandhi Manoj, Ferris Robert L, Nikiforova Marina N, Yip Linwah, Carty Sally E, Nikiforov Yuri E
Abstract excerpt
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is frequently multifocal, which can represent either intraglandular spread from a single primary tumor or multiple synchronous primary tumors (MSPTs). To distinguish and characterize these entities, we investigated whether multifocal PTCs contain genetically similar or different mutations and have particular histopathologic characteristics. In 60 cases of PTC with 2 to 4 discrete...
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