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Hürthle cell adenoma of the thyroid in identical twins with 13 year follow-up

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Recurrences occurring in twelve-year female identical twins 5 years after surgery for thyroid adenoma were reoperated. Both were shown to have Hürthle cell adenoma but one with a malignant potential. Microscopic study of these exceptional cases indicated that long-term follow-up is necessary before assuming benign nature of the tumor.

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  1. Department of Surgery I, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan

    Yukio Nagamachi, Takuji Nakamura & Takashi Yamada

  2. Institute of Adaptation Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

    Yukio Nagamachi, Takuji Nakamura & Takashi Yamada

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  1. Yukio Nagamachi
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Presented in part at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Surgical Society, Kyoto, Japan, 1973

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Nagamachi, Y., Nakamura, T. & Yamada, T. Hürthle cell adenoma of the thyroid in identical twins with 13 year follow-up. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 3, 212–217 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02468775

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