Anaplastic Cancer and Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the same Patient: Is it a Co-Incidence or a Process of Transformation? A Case Report
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Gulfem Kaya1, Sefika Burcak Polat1, Ersin Gurkan Dumlu2, Hayriye Tatli3, Reyhan Unlu Ersoy4 and Bekir Cakir4 1Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Endocrinology and Metabolism Department, Turkey 2Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, General Surgery Department, Turkey 3Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Pathology Department, Turkey 4Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey
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