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Paediatric follicular thyroid carcinoma - indolent cancer with low prevalence of RAS mutations and absence of PAX8-PPARG fusion in a Japanese population.
Histopathology - 1 Nov 2017
Vuong Huy Gia, Kondo Tetsuo, Oishi Naoki, Nakazawa Tadao, Mochizuki Kunio, Miyauchi Akira, Hirokawa Mitsuyoshi, Katoh Ryohei
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AIMS: Paediatric follicular thyroid carcinomas are uncommon, and their clinicopathological features and molecular profiles are still unknown. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the clinicopathological aspects of a large series of follicular thyroid carcinomas (FTCs) in paediatric patients and to analyse the point mutations in codons 12, 13 and 61 of NRAS, HRAS and KRAS genes and the rearrangements of...
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