ea0032p1105 | Thyroid cancer | ECE2013
Ryzhenkova Marija Igorevna
, Furminskaia Elena Yurevna
, Abrosimov Alexander Yurevich
, Shinkarkina Anna Petrovna
Background: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), the most common endocrine malignancy, is a tumor of indolent biological and clinical behaviour that usually has a good prognosis. Only a small percentage of patients are affected by aggressive variants of PTC: tall, columnar cell and diffuse sclerosing variants. These aggressive tumor subtypes are characterized by higher rate of local recurrence, regional and distant metastases than classic papillary PTC. Recently another clinical...