Preoperative clinicopathological characteristics of patients with solitary encapsulated follicular variants of papillary thyroid carcinomas.

Hyemi KwonMin Ji JeonJong Ho YoonSuck Joon HongJeong Hyun LeeTae Yong KimYoung Kee ShongWon Bae KimWon Gu KimDong Eun Song

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2017)

Clinicopathological characteristics of EFVPTCs, including preoperative US findings, are different from those of IFVPTCs. However, preoperative radiological and cytopathological findings could not distinguish non-invasive and invasive EFVPTCs.

Keyphrases

papillary thyroid
patients undergoing
lymph node metastasis
copy number
high grade
gene expression
dna methylation