Article
C-Cells and their Associated Lesions and Conditions: A Pathologists Perspective.
Turk patoloji dergisi - 1 Jan 2015
Baloch Zubair W, LiVolsi Virginia A
Abstract excerpt
This paper updates the histopathology and cytopathology of thyroid tumors and proliferations derived from the para-follicular or C cells. Beginning with an historical over view, including the recognition of medullary thyroid carcinoma as a distinct histologic entity, its relationship to the hormone, calcitonin, (which was discovered in the same decade) and to thyroid C cells, medullary carcinoma and its variants...
Topics
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Biopsy
- Carcinoma, Medullary
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine
- Cell Proliferation
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Humans
- Hyperplasia
- Immunohistochemistry
- Molecular Targeted Therapy
