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ADVANCES IN ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 282-285Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e3181e4ab3e
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medullary thyroid carcinoma; follicular carcinoma; papillary carcinoma; collission tumor; mixed tumor; c-cell tumors
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Tumors of the thyroid are subclassified based on the cell of origin and commonly include follicular-derived tumors and C-cell-derived tumors. The most common follicular-derived tumors are papillary carcinoma and follicular carcinoma, whereas the malignant C-cell-derived tumor is medullary thyroid carcinoma. Rare cases in the literature describe patients who have follicular-derived and C-cell-derived tumors in the same thyroid gland. These can be synchronous but anatomically separate carcinomas, or they can show some mixing of the 2 components. The mixture may be at an interface, as in collision tumors, or can be throughout the entire lesion, as in true mixed medullary-follicular-derived carcinomas. The clinical, histologic, and molecular features of these mixed tumors and the classification guidelines are reviewed.
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