A thyroid gland with over 30 foci of papillary thyroid carcinoma with activating BRAF V600E mutation
Multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is common and the number of tumor foci rarely exceeds ten. The mechanism of multifocal disease is debated, with the two main hypotheses consisting of either intrathyroidal metastatic spread from a single tumor or independent multicentric tumorigenesis fr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bioscientifica
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports |
| Online Access: | https://edm.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/edm/2019/1/EDM19-0006.xml |