Medullary Carcinoma
Melanotic medullary carcinoma of thyroid – report of a rare case with brief review of literature
... Black thyroid glands have been described in patients of cystic fibrosis, obstructive lung diseases and in patients who received minocycline for long duration. Pigmenta- tion in these conditions is secondary to ...
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Renal Medullary Carcinoma in an Adolescent With Sickle Cell Trait
... renal medullary carcinoma. Radiographi- cally, renal medullary carcinomas are generally cen- trally located, infiltrative, and associated with pelvic ...
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Clinical and immunologic correlates of response to PD-1 blockade in a patient with metastatic renal medullary carcinoma
... Background: Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is a rare kidney tumor that occurs in adolescent and young adults, typically in association with sickle cell trait. RMC exhibits rapid disease progression, ...
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Predictive role of PD-L1 expression in the response of renal Medullary carcinoma to PD-1 inhibition
... renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is a rare and aggressive malignancy al- most exclusively observed in individuals with sickle cell trait (SCT) and sickle cell disease (SCD) ...
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Metastatic renal medullary carcinoma: response to chemotherapy and unusual long survival
... Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is uncommon yet an aggressive form of renal cancer. Most patients present with metastatic disease. Systemic therapies recommended for clear cell carcinomas have not been well ...
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Serum calcitonin lowering effect of magnesium in patients with medullary carcinoma of the thyroid
... The effect of magnesium chloride or magnesium sulfate infusion on circulating levels of immunoreactive calcitonin (iCT) was evaluated on nine occasions in three patients with metastatic medullary carcinoma ...
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Medullary Carcinoma of Breast: A Rare Case Study
... Typical Medullary breast carcinoma (MBC) and Atypical Medullary breast carcinoma (AMBC) are uncommon variants of Invasive Ductal Carcinoma with BRCA 1 mutation, that account for 4% of ...
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MEDULLARY CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID GLAND: THE COMPLETE SYNDROME IN A CHILD
... Falck, B., Ljungberg, 0., and Rosengren, E.: On the occurrence of monoamines and re- lated substances in familial medullary thy- roid carcinoma with pheochromocytoma. Acta[r] ...
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MEDULLARY CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID WITH MARFAN-LIKE BODY HABITUS
... H., Jr.: Early diagnosis of medullany carcinoma of the thyroid gland by means of calcitonin assay. Stone referred the patient for study[r] ...
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Familial Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Associated with Cutaneous Lichen Amyloidosis
... Scratching appears to play an important role in the path- ogenesis of cutaneous amyloidosis by causing epidermal cell damage that leads to filamentous degeneration of keratino- cytes, subsequent apoptosis, and conversion ...
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Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma with Micronodular Lung Metastases: A Case Report with an Emphasis on the Imaging Findings
... familial medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (FMTC), multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)-IIA (MTC, pheochromocytoma, and hyperparathyroidism), or MEN-IIB (MTC, pheochromocytoma, mucosal neuroma, and marfanoid ...
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Calcitonin negative Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: a challenging diagnosis or a medical dilemma?
... thyroid carcinoma” were used for the ...thyroid carcinoma calcitonin-negative”, “MTC without serum calcitonin”, “Neuroendocrine thyroid tumor lack ...
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Medullary thyroid carcinoma with double negative calcitonin and CEA: a case report and update of literature review
... a medullary carcin- oma of ...of medullary thyroid car- cinoma was ...for medullary carcinoma with several and strict evaluations of calcitonin and CEA levels, and neck ultrasound without ...
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Concomitant medullary thyroid carcinoma with paraganglioma-like pattern and papillary thyroid carcinoma
... follow-up of medullary carcinoma, finding high value. Macroscopically, MTCs were always localized in the lobes, never in isthmus, and size never exceeded 1 cm. Moreover, the main data reported in literature ...
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Three siblings with familial non medullary thyroid carcinoma: a case series
... non-medullary carcinoma of the thy- roid from ...follicular carcinoma in the left and papillary car- cinoma in the right lobe, ...thyroid carcinoma along with papillary microcarcinoma, Hürthle ...
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Ultrasound features of medullary thyroid carcinoma correlate with cancer aggressiveness: a retrospective multicenter study
... In the last decade, high resolution US has been widely avail- able and this contributed to an increase in the diagnosis of thyroid malignancy [20,21]. The presence of specific US features has been closely associated with ...
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Clinicopathologic characteristics at diagnosis and the survival of patients with medullary breast carcinoma in China: a comparison with infiltrating ductal carcinoma not otherwise specified
... We retrospectively reviewed the consecutive data of 188 patients with MBC, ascertained by histopathological exa- mination and treated at the Department of Breast Sur- gery, Cancer Hospital/Cancer Institute, Fudan ...
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Patterns of thyroid hormone levels in pediatric medullary thyroid carcinoma patients on vandetanib therapy
... Background: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been associated with elevated TSH as a drug class effect. Prior studies of vandetanib in adults with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) described an ...
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Differential expression of cell cycle regulators in CDK5- dependent medullary thyroid carcinoma tumorigenesis
... Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neuroendocrine cancer of thyroid C-cells, for which few treatment options are available. We have recently reported a role for cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) in MTC ...
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Immunohistochemical analysis of medullary breast carcinoma autoantigens in different histological types of breast carcinomas
... of medullary breast carcinoma (MBC), a relatively rare type of ductal carcinoma, which despite anaplastic features has favorable prognosis for patients ...of medullary breast carcinoma ...
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