A primary, lateral-cervical medullary thyroid carcinoma: A case report

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1784-1786

  Santini, Luigi ^a   Scurini, Carmen ^a   Caracò, Corrado ^a   Conzo, Giovanni ^a   Orabona, Pasquale ^c   De Rosa, Gaetano ^c   Fattoruso, Olimpia ^b   Colantuoni, Vittorio ^b,c,d  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Anatomia Patologica   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IODINE 131; OCTREOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NODULAR GOITER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DNA, NEOPLASM; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029897862     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.5.1784     Document Type: Article

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