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ea0029p847 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ICEECE2012

Clinical and morphological characterization of C cell hyperplastic and neoplastic lesions of thyroid

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 ...