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Other Rare Tumours and Tumour-Like Lesions

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In this chapter, we describe peculiar thyroid structures of supposed branchial origin such as the so-called solid cell nests (SCNs) and other related lesions, as well as a number of rare tumours and tumour-like lesions with branchial pouch or thymic derivation. The knowledge of SCNs and this heterogeneous group of tumours is important not only for diagnostic purposes but also for understanding the strange phenotype of such lesions within the thyroid gland. Rare benign and malignant mesenchymal thyroid neoplasms and tumour-like conditions are also addressed.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Clinical University Hospital, Galician Healthcare Service (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    José M. Cameselle-Teijeiro

  2. Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    José M. Cameselle-Teijeiro

  3. Medical Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    José M. Cameselle-Teijeiro

  4. Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), Medical Faculty, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Catarina Eloy & Isabel Amendoeira

  5. i3S–Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal

    Catarina Eloy, Paula Soares, Miguel Melo & Manuel Sobrinho-Simões

  6. Department of Pathology, Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal

    Isabel Amendoeira & Manuel Sobrinho-Simões

  7. Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Paula Soares & Manuel Sobrinho-Simões

  8. Department of Pathology, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Galician Healthcare Service (SERGAS), Lugo, Spain

    Javier Caneiro-Gómez

  9. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Miguel Melo

  10. Unit of Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Miguel Melo

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    Catarina Eloy

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    Manuel Sobrinho-Simões

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Cameselle-Teijeiro, J.M. et al. (2018). Other Rare Tumours and Tumour-Like Lesions. In: Cameselle-Teijeiro, J., Eloy, C., Sobrinho-Simões, M. (eds) Rare Tumors of the Thyroid Gland. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61182-2_6

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