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ReviewEndocrine pathology2020

Pitfalls in Challenging Thyroid Tumors: Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis and Ancillary Biomarkers.

José Manuel Cameselle-Teijeiro, Catarina Eloy, Manuel Sobrinho-Simões

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Review in Endocrine pathology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas: conceptual controversy and clinical impact.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2024
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  6. Plasma cells and plasmacytoid features in thyroid lesions.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2026
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  10. Spindle lesions in the thyroid: a cytological and histological review.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2025
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  14. Histopathology of C Cells and Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer · 2025
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  15. Expression patterns and diagnostic efficacy of cytokeratin 19 and galectin-3 in thyroid neoplasms.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2025
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  20. Diagnostic utility ofEXCLI journal · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

José Manuel Cameselle-TeijeiroDepartment of Pathology, Clinical University Hospital, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Galician Healthcare Service (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain. josemanuel.cameselle@usc.es.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5516-8914
Catarina Eloyi3S Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7642-1280
Manuel Sobrinho-Simõesi3S Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1613-1235

Funding

Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI19/01316-FEDER
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thyroid pathology encompasses a heterogenous group of clinicopathological entities including rare and diagnostically challenging neoplasms. The review is focused on morphological, immunohistochemical, and molecular features of rare thyroid neoplasms that can pose diagnostic problems. The tumors are organized based on growth patterns including thyroid neoplasms with predominantly papillary, follicular, solid, and spindle cell growth pattern, as well as neoplasms with distinct cytological characteristics. A special section is also dedicated to rare thyroid tumors with peculiar patterns including thyroid carcinoma with Ewing family tumor elements and intrathyroidal thymic-related neoplasms.

Indexed as

Diagnostic Techniques, EndocrineBiomarkersBone NeoplasmsDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansSarcoma, EwingThymus NeoplasmsThyroid Function TestsThyroid GlandThyroid NeoplasmsBiomarkersDifferential diagnosisFTC variantsMolecular pathologyPTC variantsRare tumorsThyroid

Identifiers

PMID32632840
PMCPMC7395918

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