ea0049ep1384 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ECE2017
Tobias Balint
, Balla Bernadett
, Soltesz Petra
, P Kosa Janos
, Horanyi Janos
, Jaray Balazs
, Szekely Eszter
, Istok Roland
, Szekely Tamas
, Lakatos Peter
Cold nodules are one of the most common findings on scintiscans and ultrasound examinations of the thyroid gland. About 5-10% of these nodules turn out to be histologically malignant. Our aim was to examine the predictive value of somatogenetic alterations associated with thyroid cancer in FNA samples of thyroid cold nodules being citologically benign at the beginning of the study. These alterations included single nucleotide mutations (BRAF, HRAS, NRAS, KRAS) and genetic tran...