Endocrine Abstracts

Backgrounds: Mutiplicity of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are not an unusual finding, although the origin of these foci is unclear. Either intraglandular metastases from a single dominant tumor or unrelated neoplastic clones were definitively proven as the means by which multicentric PTC form. In addition, there is insufficient clinical information concerning multicentric PTC presentation, prognosis, and long-term follow-up studies after treatment. Multiplicity of PTC has ...