A case of primary mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the thyroid: Molecular evidence of its origin

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 551-556

  Minagawa, Akinobu ^a   Iitaka, Makoto ^a   Suzuki, Miho ^a   Yasuda, Shigemitsu ^a   Kameyama, Kaori ^b   Shimada, Shio ^a   Kitahama, Shinji ^a   Wada, Seiki ^a   Katayama, Shigehiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSAMMOMA BODY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

CARCINOMA, MUCOEPIDERMOID; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036402467     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2002.01599.x     Document Type: Article

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