ea0029p847 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ICEECE2012
Lugli F.
, Fusco A.
, Bianchi A.
, Milardi D.
, Cimino V.
, Piacentini S.
, Celico M.
, Lanza P.
, Raffaelli M.
, Lombardi C.
, Fadda G.
, Bellantone R.
, Pontecorvi A.
, Rindi G.
, De Marinis L.
Introduction: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and C cell hyperplasia (CCH) have a variable clinical presentation and prognosis and few data are available on the correlation between immunohistochemical characterization (IIC) and clinical behavior.Aim: We studied the clinical and morphological characterization of CCH and MTC and we evaluated IIC expression of PTTG-1, SSTR2A, VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 in 23 cases of CCH and/or MTC, correlating it with ...