Malignant tumors of the thyroid gland by oncologist - systemic treatment

[Surgical treatment of malignant tumors of the thyroid gland].

Unusual malignant tumors of the thyroid gland.

BACKGROUND Although situated on the last places among the statistical hierarchy of human malignancies, thyroid cancers (TC) are the most common tumors of the endocrine system. Follicular epithelium neoplasms account for more than 90% of these lesions with a favourable prognosis, while resting tumors (medullary, anaplastic, lymphoma, sarcoma etc) generally present a rapid unfavorable evolution w...

Tumors of the Thyroid Gland

This treatise is a compilation of papers presented at the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Tumors of the Thyroid Gland, held in Marseilles. It was the purpose of such a meeting to assemble the world authorities in thyroid diseases regardless of, and most likely because of, their known prejudices. The study of thyroid tumors is exceedingly difficult. While any attempt to unravel th...

MTA1 Expression in Benign and Malignant Salivary gland Tumors

Introduction: Salivary gland tumors (SGTs) are important parts of human neoplasms. The most common SGT is pleomorphic adenoma and the most common malignant SGTs are mucoepidermoid carcinoma and adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC). Metastasis-associated genes 1 (MTA1), a member of the nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylation complex, is one newly discovered gene which recruits histone deacetyl...

Malignant salivary gland tumors

Salivary gland neoplasms are a heterogeneous and important group of tumors of the Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. They comprise from 2 to 3% of all the salivary gland lesions and tumors1,2 because their heterogeneity, since several years, different classifications based in clinical or microscopic criteria had been appeared.3-7 The most recent and most widely used is that proposed by Seifert e...