Columnar cell variant of papillary carcinoma (CCV-PC) thyroid is a rare and aggressive tumor composed of tall columnar cells that form papillae, glands and solid structures. This paper describes fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytologic features in a case of CCV-PC occurring in the right thyroid lobe o
Tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma with foci of columnar cell component
โ Scribed by M. Shimizu; Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa; Toshiaki Manabe
- Book ID
- 106118792
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Volume
- 434
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-2307
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## Background: The tall cell variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid (tcv) is characterized by the proliferation of oxyphilic, tall, columnar cells with a height-to-width ratio of at least 2:1. tcv exhibits more aggressive clinical behavior than conventional thyroid papillary carcinoma (cpc).
## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Tall cell variant papillary carcinoma of the thyroid demonstrates unusually aggressive clinical behavior compared with the usual form of papillary thyroid carcinoma. The protoโoncogene cโ__met__ encodes a tyrosine kinase receptor known to influence cell invasion. This cur