Rare Tumors of the Thyroid Gland Diagnosis and WHO classification
This book documents the most important clinicopathological features of rare thyroid tumours with an emphasis (and ample documentation) on their histological and immunohistochemical aspects. Whenever necessary, namely for differential diagnosis and/or ther
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Rare Tumors of the Thyroid Gland
José Manuel Cameselle-Teijeiro Catarina Eloy Manuel Sobrinho-Simões Editors
Rare Tumors of the Thyroid Gland Diagnosis and WHO Classification
Editors José Manuel Cameselle-Teijeiro Dpt. of Anatomic Pathology, Clinical University Hospital (SERGAS) Medical Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Spain Manuel Sobrinho-Simões Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty, University of Porto, Department of Pathology Hospital S. João Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde Porto Portugal
Catarina Eloy Medical Faculty, University of Porto Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde Porto Portugal
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To my wife Soledad and my daughter Sole, the two “suns” that illuminate my life. JMC-T To my daughters Victória and Valentina. CE To my six grandchildren Mariana, Joana, Mafalda, Ricardo, Luísa and Manuel who are helping me to approach my seventies cheerfully. MSS
Foreword
The Webster Dictionary equates “rare” to “unusual” and “seldom occurring,” a practice that has been widely applied to medicine in general and pathology in particular, while acknowledging the fact that the two terms are not strictly synonymous. At present, the term “rare” is generally preferred, as evidenc
