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Exploring the molecular insights of concurrent composite mucoepidermoid carcinoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma

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Abbreviations

MEC:

mucoepidermoid carcinoma

PTC:

papillary thyroid cancer

SMECE:

sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma with eosinophilia

FNA:

fine needle aspiration

FV:

follicular variant

VUS:

variant of unknown significance

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The study was supported by Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, Italy (MIUR, investigator grant 2015 project code PRIN 2015HPMLFY to CD).

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  1. Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Rosa Falcone, Marialuisa Sponziello, Valeria Pecce, Luana Abballe, Giorgio Grani, Valeria Ramundo, Cosimo Durante & Antonella Verrienti

  2. Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Raffella Carletti, Cira Di Gioia, Francesco Nardi & Paolo Marchetti

  3. Department of Medicine, University of Udine, 33100, Udine, Italy

    Catia Mio & Giuseppe Damante

  4. Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sant’Andrea Hospital, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00189, Rome, Italy

    Marco Filetti & Michela Roberto

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Falcone, R., Sponziello, M., Carletti, R. et al. Exploring the molecular insights of concurrent composite mucoepidermoid carcinoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma. Endocrine 68, 230–232 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-020-02221-8

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