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Sporadic minute medullary thyroid carcinoma with a double RET mutation: A case report.
Pathology international - 1 Nov 2017
Yamamoto Hiroyuki, Ishii Jun, Chiba Tomohiro, Nakazato Yoko, Hirano Kouichi, Kamma Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
We describe a 74-year-old man with a nodular goiter accompanied by an incidental sporadic minute medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Histopathologically, the MTC was a well-defined 1.7 mm tumor in the upper one-third right lobe, with solid cell nests (SCNs) adjacent to the MTC. C-cells were scattered mainly around the SCNs, but C-cell hyperplasia was not evident in the background thyroid. The MTC cell phenotype...
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