Thyroid paraganglioma. Report of 3 cases and description of an immunohistochemical profile useful in the differential diagnosis with medullary thyroid carcinoma, based on complementary DNA array results

Human Pathology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1103-1112

  Castelblanco, Esmeralda ^a   Gallel, Pilar ^a   Ros, Susana ^a   Gatius, Sonia ^a   Valls, Joan ^a   De Cubas, Aguirre A ^b   Maliszewska, Agnieszka ^b   Yebra Pimentel, M Teresa ^c   Menarguez, Javier ^d   Gamallo, Carlos ^e   Opocher, Giuseppe ^f,g   Robledo, Mercedes ^b,h   Matias Guiu, Xavier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^f VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^h CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

cDNA arrays; Differential diagnosis; Immunohistochemistry; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; Thyroid paraganglioma; Tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 4 ISOFORM 2; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE 1 ALPHA SUBCOMPLEX 4 LIKE 2; OXIDOREDUCTASE; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 2;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAGANGLIOMA; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84862587153     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2011.08.022     Document Type: Article

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