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Morphological and immunohistological characteristics of follicular-compact thyroid carcinoma in dog.
Folia Histochem Cytobiol
; 52(2): 157-61, 2014.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25007184
RESUMO
The case of a 14-year-old mongrel dog with a thyroid tumor treated by thyreoidectomy is described. The resected tumor was subjected to a detailed morphological and immunohistochemical analysis utilizing antibodies directed against thyroglobulin, calcitonin, chromogranin A, cytokeratin 19, thyroid transcription factor-1, CD31, Ki-67 and minichromosome maintenance protein 3. Expression level of the above mentioned antigens allowed to characterize the resected tumor as thyroid follicular-compact carcinoma. Common application of immunohistochemistry may increase the diagnosis precision and efficacy of thyroid tumor treatment in dogs.