Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Although papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is considered to have an excellent prognosis, some more aggressive variants have been identified that show reduced overall survival rates. Besides from the diffuse sclerosing, tall cell, columnar cell, and solid variant, the hobnail variant was newly recognized as one of these aggressive forms, affecting recurrence, metastasis, and overall survival rates.Methods: We performed a systematic review and ...