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Clinical significance of the BRAF V600E mutation in multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma in Korea.
Surgery - 1 Apr 2014
Ahn Hwa Young, Chung Yun Jae, Kim Byung Seup, Kang Kyung Ho, Seok Ju Won, Kim Hee Sung, Park Sung Jun, Cho Bo Youn
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We examined the frequency of the BRAF(V600E) mutation and compared the clinicopathologic features based on the BRAF(V600E) mutation status in multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). METHODS: A total 85 patients who were diagnosed with multifocal PTC were enrolled. We confirmed the status of the BRAF(V600E) mutation in each tumor focus by the real-time polymerase chain reaction technique....
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