Coexistence of Medullary and Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas Detected Incidentally

Authors : Ensar AYDEMİR, Özen ÖZ GÜL, Yasemin AYDOĞAN ÜNSAL, Coşkun ATEŞ, Soner CANDER, Canan ERSOY, Erdinç ERTÜRK

Pages : 1-3

Doi:10.46310/tjim.882858

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Publication Date : 2021-03-07

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Papillary thyroid carcinoma insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(PTC); and Medullary thyroid carcinoma insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MTC); are extremely rare and constitute less than 0.5% of all thyroid malignancies. In this study, the prevelance and characteristics of 8 patients with simultaneous PTC and MTC diagnoses were evaluated.
Keywords : Germline RET mutation, Papillary thyroid carcinoma, Medullary thyroid carcinoma, Thyroid cancer