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Ruling in or ruling out thyroid malignancy by molecular diagnostics of thyroid nodules.
Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 1 Aug 2014
Eszlinger Markus, Hegedüs László, Paschke Ralf
Abstract excerpt
Routine morphologic cytology is the basis for any kind of (integrated) molecular FNA diagnostics. The rule out (gene expression classifier) approach requires confirmation by independent studies, whereas the rule in approach (detection of BRAF, NRAS, HRAS, and KRAS and PAX8/PPARG- and RET/PTC rearrangements) has been investigated by several groups with overall reproducible results. Moreover, molecular screening...
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