Thyrotropin (TSH) is thought as a risk factor for thyroid cancer. However, the effect of serum TSH might depend on histological types of thyroid cancer. We searched for related studies including serum TSH as an exposure and thyroid cancer as a result in PUBMED, EMBASE and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure up to April 21, 2016. This meta-analysis included 22 articles with 53,538 particip...

A case of an isolated submandibular gland metastasis from a clinically occult papillary thyroid carcinoma is described in a 46-year old lady. Initial surgery was done based on the fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) report of adenocarcinoma of the submandibular gland. Histopathologic examination of the specimen suggested a metastatic papillary carcinoma. Occult papillary carcinoma in the thy...

Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is one of the most common thyroid malignancies, with an increase in incidence rates over the past few decades. The exact cause of thyroid cancer in most patients is still unclear but the possibility of genetic predisposition to PTC cannot be overlooked. The literature review on familial papillary thyroid carcinoma was done. Its occurrence at an advanced stage in c...

Mature cystic teratoma of the ovary is a frequent event, but thyroid papillary carcinoma and strumal carcinoid appear in mature cystic ovarian teratoma at the same time is extremely rare. The present case is the first patient of mature cystic ovarian teratoma with thyroid papillary carcinoma and strumal carcinoid reported from China in English. A review of the literature is performed, and the c...

Due to exponential growth and high diversity of DICOM images in healthcare industry, medical image mining has gained prominent attention because extraction of useful and effective patterns is one of the major problems in DICOM images. For instance, differentiating between the mimic, mix and complex patterns of thyroid papillary carcinoma (PTC) and other cancers in FNAC images is really challeng...

CONTEXT Development of calcifying foci is a common finding in human thyroid papillary carcinoma, but its mechanisms remain unknown. OBJECTIVE We therefore investigated whether osteocalcin and/or Cbfa-1 genes are expressed in malignant thyroid epithelial cells. We also studied the effects of Cbfa-1 on the expression of osteoblast-specific and thyrotropin receptor genes in thyrocytes. RESULTS...

BACKGROUND This study investigates whether diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for the development of papillary thyroid cancer, using an age-, gender-, and race-matched analysis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 1559 patients with newly evaluated thyroid cancer over a 4-year period at our institution and identified 1313 patients (84%) with papillary thyroid carcinoma. Characte...

Mixed medullary and follicular or papillary carcinoma of thyroid is an extremely rare tumor, characterized by coexistence of morphological and immunohistochemical features of both medullary carcinoma and follicular (or papillary) carcinoma. This case report describes for the first time in the indexed database a late recurrence of a medullary thyroid carcinoma initially diagnosed as follicular-p...

A diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma is uncommon and has a tendency for rapid growth and a higher incidence of cervical lymph node metastases. We experienced a case of a diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma in a 48-year-old man. This case showed benign features on initial ultrasonography and positron emission tomography (PET) scan. A new nodule was de...

Clinically apparent cervical lymphadenopathy has been found at the initial presentation in 23 to 56 % of cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Here we report tuberculous lymphadenitis mimicking metastatic lymph nodes from papillary thyroid carcinoma and suggest that tuberculosis apart from metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma should also be considered in the etiology of enlarged lymph node...