Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare and fatal disease that is remarkable for its almost exclusive association with young, black patients with sickle-cell trait and, in some cases, sickle-cell disease.

Medullary carcinomas have a better prognosis than other grade 3 mammary carcinomas, but they typically show basal-like biological features, which are associated with a poor prognosis. In this ...

Medial Medullary Infarction: Diffusion-weighted MRI scans; (Left) Lower medulla; (Right) Upper medulla. Note the small area of infarction (bright signal) in the right medial medulla. Infarcts in the ...

RET carriers with moderate-risk variants had lower penetrance rates of medullary thyroid cancer than suggested by clinical studies.

In a small group of adults diagnosed with medullary thyroid microcarcinoma, few had disease recurrence or died during more than 6 years of follow-up, according to findings from an Australian ...

Medullary nailing of long-bone fractures is not a new procedure. It was used in ancient times in severe compound fractures. Nicolaysen in 1897 1 proposed such a form of treatment and Hey-Groves 2 ...

Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare a neuroendocrine tumor that arises from the parafollicular C cells of the thyroid, which are neural crest derivatives and produce calcitonin and ...

Microscopically, the tumor consisted of rather pleomorphic, foamy cells growing in groups separated by fibrous bands, consistent with medullary thyroid carcinoma. 8 Some recognizable thyroid ...

Lateral Medullary Infarction: Flair axial MRI scans. Note the small area of infarction in the right lateral medulla. Strokes in the lateral medulla usually result from occlusion of the vertebral ...

Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare neuroendocrine malignancy that derives from parafollicular cells (C cells) of the thyroid gland that secrete the polypeptide hormone calcitonin. 1, 2 It ...

Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Associated With Hyperthyroidism: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Mouhammed Amir Habra; Rabih Hijazi; Gordana Verstovsek; Marco Marcelli Disclosures ...

Cabozantinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) of hepatocyte growth factor receptor (MET), vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, and rearranged during transfection (RET), demonstrated ...