A number of histologic variants of well‐differentiated papillary carcinoma have been found to
be associated with more aggressive tumor behavior. Tall cell, columnar cell, diffuse …

Papillary thyroid carcinomas are the most common endocrine cancer and are usually
associated with good survival. However, some variants of papillary thyroid carcinomas may …

BACKGROUND Papillary thyroid carcinomas represent a diversity of morphologic subtypes
and variants, but to the authors' knowledge the prognostic significance of subclassification is …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of differentiated thyroid cancer, is a
heterogeneous collection of histologic variants with distinct biologic behaviors and clinical …

The concept that poorly differentiated carcinomas (PDC) represent a group in an
intermediate position in the spectrum of follicular cell-derived carcinomas of the thyroid …

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Introduction Aggressive variants of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) have been described with
increasing frequency. These variants include diffuse sclerosing variant, tall cell variant …

Many histological variants of PTC have been described and some are known to have
prognostic significance. However, their relative frequencies and associated …

The tall‐cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (TCV) has been described as an
aggressive tumor with a significantly higher incidence of recurrence and mortality than other …

It is generally believed that the histological pattern of papillary thyroid carcinomas has no
influence on the course of the disease. However, we were puzzled by the evident …