Incidental detection of familial medullary thyroid carcinoma by calcitonin screening for nodular thyroid disease.

Mayr, B

Incidental detection of familial medullary thyroid carcinoma by calcitonin screening for nodular thyroid disease. [electronic resource] - European journal of endocrinology Sep 1999 - 286-9 p. digital

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

0804-4643

10.1530/eje.0.1410286 doi


Adult
Calcitonin--blood
Carcinoma, Medullary--diagnosis
DNA--chemistry
Diagnosis, Differential
Drosophila Proteins
Female
Humans
Immunoradiometric Assay
Pedigree
Pentagastrin
Point Mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Proto-Oncogene Mas
Proto-Oncogene Proteins--chemistry
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret
Radionuclide Imaging
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases--chemistry
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Thyroid Gland--pathology
Thyroid Neoplasms--diagnosis
Thyroid Nodule--diagnosis