Mixed medullary-follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland: A clinicopathologic variant of medullary thyroid carcinoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 631-635

  Mizukami, Yuji ^a   Nonomura, Akitaka ^a   Michigishi, Takatoshi ^a   Noguchi, Masakuni ^a   Ishizaki, Takeshi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mixed medullary follicular carcinoma; Prognosis; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CHROMOGRANINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029994085     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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