C-cell hyperplasia in sporadic and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma

• Main Authors: Mahima Yadav (Author), Vinita Agrawal (Author), Krushna Chandra Pani (Author), Ritu Verma (Author), Sushila Jaiswal (Author), Anjali Mishra (Author), Rakesh Pandey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Context: C-cell hyperplasia (CCH) is characterized by increased mass of C-cells and has been identified as a precursor condition for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Varying proportion of MTCs is associated with CCH in different studies. This could be due to the lack of uniformity of the definitio...