Molecular profile and clinical-pathologic features of the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma. An unusually high prevalence of ras mutations.

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Published in Am J Clin Pathol on July 01, 2003

Authors

Zhaowen Zhu1, Manoj Gandhi, Marina N Nikiforova, Andrew H Fischer, Yuri E Nikiforov

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 231 Albert Sabin Way, PO Box 670529, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0529, USA.

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