Background: Cervical lymph node metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are
common. Thirty to eighty percent of patients with papillary thyroid cancer harbor lymph node …

The constitutive activation of Janus Kinase/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription
(JAK/STAT) signal transduction is well elucidated in STAT3-mediated oncogenesis related …

Context: Genetic aberration in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway has been
detected in numerous and diverse human cancers. PIK3CA, which encodes for the catalytic …

In this review, we focused on the patient age as an indicator of tumor growth and prognostic
significance in both clinical papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and subclinical papillary …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer. Tumor
recurrence occurs in∼ 20% of PTCs and some reach advanced stages. Promoter mutation …

The precise diagnosis of thyroid neoplasias will guide surgical management. Primary thyroid
paraganglioma has been rarely reported. Data on prevalence, immunohistochemistry (IHC) …

Background Ki-67 is a useful tool for evaluating cell proliferative activity in various tumors.
Although the utility of Ki-67 labeling index (LI) to diagnose thyroid neoplasms has been …

Background We previously reported a high incidence of primary thyroid cancer in
fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomogram (FDG-PET)-detected incidental thyroid …

Background: Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) detection has been increasing
explosively with the recent improvement and application of new diagnostic tools. However …

Introduction According to the World Health Organization, the tall cell variant (TCV) is an
aggressive subtype of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) comprising at least 30% epithelial …