Calcitonin negative Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: a challenging diagnosis or a medical dilemma?

BACKGROUND: Medullary thyroid carcinoma is a neuroendocrine tumor belonging form a malignant growth of the thyroid parafollicular C-cells, representing from 1 to 10% of all thyroid cancer. The biochemical activity of medullary thyroid carcinoma includes the production of calcitonin and carcinoembryo...

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Published in:BMC Endocr Disord
Main Authors: Gambardella, Claudio, Offi, Chiara, Patrone, Renato, Clarizia, Guglielmo, Mauriello, Claudio, Tartaglia, Ernesto, Di Capua, Francesco, Di Martino, Sergio, Romano, Roberto Maria, Fiore, Lorenzo, Conzo, Alessandra, Conzo, Giovanni, Docimo, Giovanni
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6541563/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31142313
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-019-0367-2
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