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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baloch, Zubair
• LiVolsi, Virginia A
• Tondon, Rashmi

Titel

Aggressive variants of follicular cell derived thyroid carcinoma; the so called ‘Real Thyroid Carcinomas’

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2013-09, Vol.66 (9), p.733-743

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

BMJ Journals Archiv - DFG Nationallizenzen

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The pathological diagnoses and classification schemes for thyroid carcinoma have changed over the past 20 years and continue to do so. New entities have been described and molecular analyses have suggested better characterisation and grouping of certain tumours. Because some of the lesions have been named differently by different authors, clinicians and patients may be confused as to what a specific patient's lesion represents. In this review, we discuss the thyroid tumours of follicular origin which are clinically unusual but important to recognise as their behaviour may be aggressive, they may not respond to radioiodine treatment and they may cause significant mortality. This paper describes these important but rare lesions, their pathological features, important clinicopathological correlations, molecular correlates and prognostic implications.