"Carcinoma, Medullary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A carcinoma composed mainly of epithelial elements with little or no stroma. Medullary carcinomas of the breast constitute 5%-7% of all mammary carcinomas; medullary carcinomas of the thyroid comprise 3%-10% of all thyroid malignancies. (From Dorland, 27th ed; DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1141; Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D018276
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.465.625.650.240.315 C04.557.470.200.025.370.315 C04.557.470.615.315 C04.557.580.625.650.240.315
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| Concept/Terms |
Carcinoma, Medullary- Carcinoma, Medullary
- Carcinomas, Medullary
- Medullary Carcinoma
- Medullary Carcinomas
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Carcinoma, Medullary".
- Diseases [C]
- Neoplasms [C04]
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type [C04.557]
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal [C04.557.465]
- Neuroectodermal Tumors [C04.557.465.625]
- Neuroendocrine Tumors [C04.557.465.625.650]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.465.625.650.240]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.465.625.650.240.315]
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial [C04.557.470]
- Carcinoma [C04.557.470.200]
- Adenocarcinoma [C04.557.470.200.025]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.470.200.025.370]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.470.200.025.370.315]
- Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary [C04.557.470.615]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.470.615.315]
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue [C04.557.580]
- Neuroectodermal Tumors [C04.557.580.625]
- Neuroendocrine Tumors [C04.557.580.625.650]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.580.625.650.240]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.580.625.650.240.315]
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Carcinoma, Medullary".
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carcinoma, Medullary" by people in Profiles.
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Metastatic Renal Medullary Carcinoma Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor: Case Report and Literature Review. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2018 12; 16(6):e1087-e1090.
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The antiproliferative effect of pasireotide LAR alone and in combination with everolimus in patients with medullary thyroid cancer: a single-center, open-label, phase II, proof-of-concept study. Endocrine. 2018 10; 62(1):46-56.
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Thyroid cancer: trends in incidence, mortality and clinical-pathological patterns in Zhejiang Province, Southeast China. BMC Cancer. 2018 03 15; 18(1):291.
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Large sporadic thyroid medullary carcinomas: predictive factors for lymph node involvement. Virchows Arch. 2018 Mar; 472(3):461-468.
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Adult primary medullary carcinoma: an unusual cause of pain from intussusception. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2017 Aug 02; 78(8):474.
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SPECT/CT and PET/CT molecular imaging in medullary thyroid carcinoma. Are we running in the right direction? Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2017 09; 44(10):1692-1694.
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Low prognostic implication of fibroblast growth factor family activation in triple-negative breast cancer subsets. Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 May; 21(5):1561-8.
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Modified extended Kocher incision for total thyroidectomy with lateral compartment neck dissection - a critical appraisal of surgical access and cosmesis in 31 patients. Clin Otolaryngol. 2012 Oct; 37(5):395-8.
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Predictive value of pentagastrin test for preoperative differential diagnosis between C-cell hyperplasia and medullary thyroid carcinoma in patients with moderately elevated basal calcitonin levels. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2010 Jul; 73(1):85-8.
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IFN-alpha skews monocytes into CD56+-expressing dendritic cells with potent functional activities in vitro and in vivo. J Immunol. 2008 Feb 01; 180(3):1462-70.