Expression of galectin-3 in fine-needle
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Hidenori Inohara; Yuichiro Honjo; Tadashi Yoshii; Shiro Akahani; Jun-ichi Yoshid
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## BACKGROUND. Galectin-3 is a -galactoside-binding protein that has been reported to be expressed preferentially in thyroid malignancies. The current study was designed to substantiate this finding further and to establish a presurgical diagnostic modality of differentiating between benign and ma