creators_name: S, Vijayshankar creators_name: K, Amita creators_name: M, Abhishek creators_name: D, Manjunath creators_id: dramitay@rediffmail.com editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2010-11-22 14:19:03 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:49 metadata_visibility: show title: Sporadic Medullary Microcarcinoma in a Young Patient - A Rare Case ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Medullary microcarcinoma; Sporadic; Solitary thyroid nodule abstract: Sporadic medullary microcarcinoma of thyroid is a rare disease detected usually in 0.15% of all thyroid malignancy. We report a case of sporadic medullary microcarcinoma (MMC) of thyroid in a 24 year old male presenting as solitary thyroid nodule. There was no family history of medullary carcinoma of thyroid. Although medullary carcinoma in a familial setting have been reported, sporadic MMC is rare especially in a young patient. date: 2010-10-15 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 9 number: 3 publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Chan JKC. Tumors of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. In: Fletcher CDM. (ed). Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumors. 3rd ed. Churchill Livingstone. London, England. 2007. PP 997–1097 2. Guyetant S, Dupre F, Bigorgne JC et al. Medullary thyroid microcarcinoma: A clinicopathologic retrospective study of 38 patients with no prior familial disease. Hum Pathol. 1999;30:957–963 3. Yang GCH, Livolsi VA, Baloch ZW. Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Fine Needle Aspiration Diagnosis and Histologic Follow up. International Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2002;10:133-139 citation: S, Vijayshankar and K, Amita and M, Abhishek and D, Manjunath (2010) Sporadic Medullary Microcarcinoma in a Young Patient - A Rare Case. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/7123/1/2010-3-20.pdf