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Thyroid tumors are divided into two categories: primary and secondary metastatic tumor. The majority of thyroid tumors are derived from follicular thyroid epithelial cells. This includes both benign (follicular adenoma) and malignant tumors, well-differentiated papillary and follicular carcinomas, and poorly differentiated and anaplastic carcinomas. Oncocytic thyroid tumors are considered to be variants of follicular thyroid adenomas and carcinomas. Medullary carcinomas are derived from thyroid C cells.

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  1. Department of Cytopathology, Railroad Clinical Hospital JSC “Russian Railways”, Vladimirovskiy Spusk, 2а, Novosibirsk, 630003, Russia

    Tatiana Poloz M.D., Sc.D.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Institut Curie, Paris Cedex, France

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  2. Department of Cytopathology, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Živa Pohar Marinšek

  3. Department of Pathology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

    Henryk A Domanski

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Poloz, T. (2018). Thyroid Tumors. In: Klijanienko, J., Pohar Marinšek, Ž., Domanski, H. (eds) Small Volume Biopsy in Pediatric Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61027-6_8

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