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Importance While well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (WDPTC) outcomes have
been well characterized, the prognostic implications of more aggressive variants are far less …

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

Background The diffuse sclerosing (DSV) and tall cell (TCV) variants are considered
aggressive subtypes of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) for which data are limited. Methods …

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

SUGITANI ET AL 1 HAVE PRESENTED AN EXPERIENCE of 604 patients who underwent
definitive surgery for papillary thyroid carcinoma. The authors have excluded …

Background: Our understanding of the natural history of differentiated thyroid carcinoma has
improved with the definition of prognostic factors. These prognostic factors have helped us …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancy, and has an excellent
prognosis, even with cervical lymph node metastasis; however, histological variants are …

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

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 …