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Primary hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma--C-cell morphology and correlation with preoperative calcitonin levels.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Sept 1998
Hinze R, Holzhausen H J, Gimm O, Dralle H, Rath F W
Abstract excerpt
Early thyroidectomy offers an opportunity of preventing the development of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in patients at risk for hereditary MTC. We investigated the thyroid glands of 32 patients with hereditary MTC to identify the changes in C-cell morphology and to correlate these with plasma calcitonin (CT) levels and with clinical data. The entire thyroid gland was processed for histological examination...
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