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ea0090p234 | Thyroid | ECE2023

Lower expression of miR-21 is related to multifocal lesions of papillary thyroid carcinoma

Kondrotienė Aistė , Daukša Albertas , Pamedytyte Diana , Kazlauskienė Mintautė , Žvirblienė Aurelija , Daukšienė Dalia , Simanavičienė Vaida , Klimaitė Raimonda , Šarauskas Valdas , Verkauskienė Rasa , Žilaitienė Birutė

Introduction: Multifocality empirically is often treated as a risk factor for aggressive course of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), encouraging aggressive treatments. However, inconsistency and even contradiction in a literature is present concerning the role of tumor multifocality in clinical outcomes of PTC. Therefore, the prognostic value of multifocality of PTC remains controversial, creating a difficulty in the current clinical management.Methods....