Implications of the tcga genomic characterization of papillary thyroid carcinoma for thyroid pathology: Does follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma exist?

Thyroid

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-2

  Asa, Sylvia L ^a   Giordano, Thomas J ^b   Livolsi, Virginia A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; EDITORIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84920861974     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2014.0540     Document Type: Editorial

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