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Simultaneous occurrence of a medullary and a papillary thyroid carcinoma in the same patient.
General & diagnostic pathology - 1 Jun 1997
Tseleni-Balafouta S, Grigorakis S I, Alevizaki M, Karaiskos C, Davaris P, Koutras D A
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We present the case of a patient in whom we diagnosed two different thyroid carcinomas (one on each lobe) of distinct histologic type: one derived from the follicular cells (papillary) and one from the C cells (medullary). They were both diagnosed preoperatively by fine needle aspiration (FNA), and the diagnosis was confirmed with histologic examination. "Inappropriate" staining with neuroendocrine markers was...
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