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Medullary Thyroid Cancer: A Review
Thyroid cancer is a malignancy of the thyroid parenchymal cells. There are four main types of thyroid cancer: papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), follicular thyroid cancer (FTC), anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC), and Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare neuroendocrine tumor of the thyroid gland derived from parafollicular C-cells that produce calcitonin (CT...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Modern Pathology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0893-3952,1530-0285
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.147