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Year:
2000
| Volume: 8
| Issue: 3
| Pages: 135-136
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Case Report |
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FAMILIAL PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA
Vesna MIHAJLOVIC-BOZIC, Svetislav TATIC, Ivan PAUNOVIC, Radovan JANKOVIC, Marija HAVELKA |
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Familial papillary carcinoma of the thyroid has been reported rarely. This report describes a motherand her duaghter with papillary thyroid carcinoma. The speculation of authors is that some gene-related factors might play an important role in familial occurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma. |
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Key words:
Thyroid tumor; Familial occurrence; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Modern genetic studies; RET protooncogene |
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