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Multicentric occurrence of multiple papillary thyroid carcinomas--HUMARA and BRAF mutation analysis.
Cancer medicine - 1 Aug 2015
Nakazawa Tadao, Kondo Tetsuo, Tahara Ippei, Kasai Kazunari, Inoue Tomohiro, Oishi Naoki, Mochizuki Kunio, Kubota Takeo, Katoh Ryohei
Abstract excerpt
Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) occasionally form multiple tumor foci in different sites of the same thyroid gland. However, it is controversial whether discrete nodules of PTC arise independently (multicentric occurrence) or are seeded from a single tumor via lymphatic channels (intraglandular metastasis). In order to determine the clonal origin of multiple PTCs, we examined X-chromosome inactivation...
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