| Literature DB >> 7615909 |
I Rivas1, C Gutiérrez, J Vendrell, S Razkin, C Richart.
Abstract
A 42-year-old woman with a medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) inside of an autonomously functioning thyroid nodule is reported. The patient was initially diagnosed of a hyperfunctioning autonomous thyroid adenoma but the histopathological and immunohistochemistry study were diagnostic for a MTC. This is the first case of a medullary thyroid carcinoma associated with thyroid hyperfunction which was presented as a hot nodule in the scintigraphy. We propose a systematic performance of a fine needle biopsy in all thyroid nodules because of the possibility of carcinoma associated to functioning nodules could be present.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 7615909 DOI: 10.1007/BF03347806
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Endocrinol Invest ISSN: 0391-4097 Impact factor: 4.256