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Assessment of RET/PTC oncogene activation in thyroid nodules utilizing laser microdissection followed by nested
Giovanni Tallini1, Guilherme Brandao
1Division of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|July 21, 2005
Abstract:
Single palpable nodules of the thyroid gland are common in clinical practice; the majority of such lesions are benign. However, noninvasive thyroid nodules that exhibit borderline morphological signs of papillary cancer represent a diagnostic challenge. Rearrangements of the RET oncogene have been proposed as a marker for papillary thyroid cancer. In this chapter, methods for the analysis of the RET oncogene in laser microdissected papillary thyroid cancer tissue are described.