Mixed medullary and follicular cell carcinoma of the thyroid in a 71-year-old man with history of malignant melanoma

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Maruna, Pavel ^a,b   Duskova, Jaroslava ^b,c   Limanova, Zdena ^b   Dvoraková, Sarka ^d   Vaclavikova, Eliska ^d   Bendlova, Bela ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Inst of Med Postgraduate Studies   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Follicular thyroid carcinoma; Melanoma; RET proto oncogene; Thyroid; Thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; PROTEIN RET; THYROGLOBULIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GERM LINE GENE THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; POINT MUTATION; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42049095922     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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