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Clinical Aspects of Miscellaneous and Unusual Types of Thyroid Cancers

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The majority of epithelial thyroid tumors maintain some degree of thyroid follicular cell function, as evidenced by thyroglobulin production and the ability to concentrate iodine. They also have typical histological appearances, such as those seen in papillary and follicular carcinomas In this chapter we discuss a group of unusual primary thyroid neoplasms characterized by limited or absence of differentiated thyroid cellular function and structure; they have, in general, more aggressive clinical courses than differentiated carcinomas We also discuss tumors that metastasize to the thyroid gland. These thyroid tumors have been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the headings of “other” thyroid carcinomas, nonepithelial tumors, and in the case of several histological types to be discussed, variants of papillary and follicular carcinoma (1,2).

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Ringel, M.D., Burman, K.D., Shmookler, B.M. (2000). Clinical Aspects of Miscellaneous and Unusual Types of Thyroid Cancers. In: Wartofsky, L. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-199-2_49

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