Article
[Genetic testing for ret mutation for early diagnosis and treatment in familial medullary thyroid carcinoma: a case report].
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy - 1 Apr 1998
Nagaoka H, Iino Y, Takei H, Maemura M, Horiguchi J, Horii Y, Matumoto H, Koibuchi Y, Ninomiya J, Yokoe T, Oyama T, Morishita Y
Abstract excerpt
A 13-year-old girl and her older sister were referred to our hospital because her father and another older sister and been suffering from medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Physical examinations revealed no thyroid mass. Ultrasonography (US) detected a small hypoechoic lesion in the right thyroid...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Carcinoma, Medullary
- Drosophila Proteins
- Family Health
- Female
- Humans
- Lymph Node Excision
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
- Thyroid Neoplasms
- Thyroidectomy