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Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Clinical Oncology, 2010
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) accounts for 5-8% of all thyroid cancers. MTC is mainly sporadic in nature, but an hereditary pattern [multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2)] is present in 20-30% of cases, transmitted as an autosomal-dominant trait due to germline mutations of the RET proto-oncogene.
Pacini F.   +3 more
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When is medullary thyroid carcinoma “medullary thyroid carcinoma”?

World Journal of Surgery, 1986
AbstractMedullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is thought to develop from the parafollicular or C cells within the thyroid gland and, therefore, should not take up radioactive iodine. Recently, however,131I uptake has been reported in metastases of “medullary carcinoma” and, consequently, some authors have suggested that these tumors can be treated with ...
G, Riccabona, D, Ladurner, K, Schmid
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Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, 2007
Medullary thyroid carcinoma is a neuroendocrine tumor derived from the C cells of the thyroid gland and accounts for approximately 5% of all thyroid carcinomas. Approximately 30% of the cases are associated with an autosomal dominant syndrome called multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, and the identification of these individuals is important because ...
Ana O, Hoff, Paulo M, Hoff
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RENAL MEDULLARY CARCINOMA

Journal of Urology, 1998
Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare and extremely aggressive neoplasm that almost always develops in young patients with sickle cell trait. To our knowledge all cases to date have been metastatic at surgical resection. Pathological examination reveals an aggressive tumor mainly involving the renal medulla with a varied morphology.
R S, Figenshau   +5 more
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Medullary carcinoma of the breast

Cancer Treatment Reviews, 1988
Medullary carcinoma of the breast (MC) was primarily characterized histopathologically in the late 1940s. Until then, the word 'medullary'-when applied to mammary car- cinoma-had been used with different meaning by various writers. As early as 1945, Geschichter (16) mentioned in a textbook of pathology the 'so-called medullary cancers' under a heading ...
L, Pedersen, S, Holck, T, Schiødt
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