Variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-422X.2011.04.
- VernacularTitle:甲状腺乳头状癌的变异型
- Author:
Rui ZHOU
;
Shengying WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Thyroid neoplasms;
Carcinoma,papillary;
Histological variant
- From:
Journal of International Oncology
2011;38(3):203-206
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Histological variants of papillary carcinoma are numerous,and most variants have the same clinical behavior with classical PTC.Howwver prognosis of a few variants are poor,such as Tall cell variant,Columnar cell variant,Solid/Trabecular variant etc.There are some controversy in the diagnosis of some variants.For example,Follicular variant is easily misdiagnosed as Follicular adenoma,Clear cell variant ma y beconfused with Renal cell carcinoma.Moreover,there are some divergences about proportion of cell and cell height in diagnosis of Tall cell variant,and so on.
