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Is morphology alone able to predict BRAF-mutated malignancies on thyroid FNAC?

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  1. Division of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, “Agostino Gemelli” School of Medicine, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Esther Diana Rossi, Tommaso Bizzarro, Guido Fadda & Luigi Maria Larocca

  2. Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Schmitt

  3. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Fernando Schmitt

  4. Department of Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Fernando Schmitt

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Rossi, E.D., Bizzarro, T., Fadda, G. et al. Is morphology alone able to predict BRAF-mutated malignancies on thyroid FNAC?. Virchows Arch 465, 247–248 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-014-1607-5

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