Mixed medullary-follicular thyroid carcinoma: Molecular evidence for a dual origin of tumor components

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1499-1509

  Volante, Marco ^a   Papotti, Mauro ^a   Roth, Jürgen ^b   Saremaslani, Parvin ^b   Speel, Ernst J M ^b   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^c   Carney, J Aidan ^c   Heitz, Philipp U ^b   Bussolati, Gianni ^a   Komminoth, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIXED TUMOR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032757074     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65465-X     Document Type: Article

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