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ea0022p749 | Thyroid | ECE2010

Evaluation of diagnostic utility of Galectin-3 protein detection in preoperative diagnostic of high-differentiated thyroid gland cancer by flow cytometry method

Dmitriy Semyonov , Ludmila Koloskova , Marina Boriskova , Natalia Feshenko , Ulyana Farafonov

There were evaluated galectin-3 expression in 66 fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) specimens from patients with thyroid gland nodules by flow cytometry method. We include in our study 29 patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), 31 – with follicular neoplasia, 6 – with nodular colloid goiter by cytological examination. For specimens analysis, taken by FNAB of thyroid gland nodules, were used indirect immunofluorence method /Coons/.Result...