Family with nonmedullary thyroid neoplasms.
This report concerns a family in which papillary thyroid carcinoma appeared in the father and two daughters and follicular adenoma in a granddaughter. The father died of systemic metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma. The two daughters and granddaughter felt well postoperatively. We speculate that some gene-related factors might play an important role in familial occurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma and follicular thyroid adenoma in the family.
Kobayashi
K
K
Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Tottori University, Japan.
Tanaka
Y
Y
Ishiguro
S
S
Mori
T
T
Mitani
Y
Y
Shigemasa
C
C
D000236:Adenoma / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010375:Pedigree; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology