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Identification of Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Intrathyroid Thymic Carcinomas.
Endocrine pathology - 1 Sept 2020
Tahara Ippei, Oishi Naoki, Mochizuki Kunio, Oyama Toshio, Miyata Kazuyuki, Miyauchi Akira, Hirokawa Mitsuyoshi, Katoh Ryohei, Kondo Tetsuo
Abstract excerpt
Intrathyroid thymic carcinoma (ITTC) is a rare malignant neoplasm considered to be a eutopic thymic carcinoma (TC) arising ectopically in the thyroid. Histopathologically, ITTC resembles squamous cell carcinoma of the thymus with positive TC markers such as CD5 and c-KIT. Despite these similar histological findings, ITTC is clinically less aggressive than TC. In this study, we compared clinical, histological, and...
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