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In the 1950s, the physicians of the Cleveland Clinic defined medullary thyroid carcinoma as a clinicopathologic entity (1,2). During the same decade, a few were recognized independently as unusual tumors that differed from the majority of thyroid neoplasms (3). Subsequently, a thorough search of the literature revealed several other probable medullary carcinomas (4); sporadic and hereditary forms were recognized. The latter is associated with other endocrine neoplasms, most frequently, pheochromocytoma (Fig. 1).
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Oertel, J.E., Oertel, Y.C. (2006). Pathology of Medullary Thyroid Cancer. In: Wartofsky, L., Van Nostrand, D. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-995-0_71
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