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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">endoserg</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Эндокринная хирургия</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Endocrine Surgery</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2306-3513</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2310-3965</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Типография «Печатных дел Мастер»</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.14341/serg201344-13</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">endoserg-6572</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Прогностические критерии клинического течения и диагностика медуллярного рака щитовидной железы</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Diagnosis of medullary thyroid cancer and prognostic factors of disease aggressiveness</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Gazizova</surname><given-names>D O</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>aspirant FGBU ENTs</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">-</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Beltsevich</surname><given-names>D G</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>doktor med. nauk, gl. nauch. sotr. otd. khirurgii FGBU ENTs</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">beltsevich@rambler.ru</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Tiulpakov</surname><given-names>A N</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>doktor med. nauk, zav. otdeleniem nasledstvennykh endokrinopatiy FGBU ENTs</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">-</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Soldatova</surname><given-names>T V</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>kand. med. nauk, zav. otdeleniem ul'trazvukovoy diagnostiki FGBU ENTs</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">-</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ilyin</surname><given-names>A V</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>zav. otdeleniem klinicheskoy biokhimii FGBU ENTs</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">-</email></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2013</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title>№4 (2013)</issue-title><fpage>4</fpage><lpage>13</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Gazizova D.O., Beltsevich D.G., Tiulpakov A.N., Soldatova T.V., Ilyin A.V., 2013</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2013</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Gazizova D.O., Beltsevich D.G., Tiulpakov A.N., Soldatova T.V., Ilyin A.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Gazizova D.O., Beltsevich D.G., Tiulpakov A.N., Soldatova T.V., Ilyin A.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.surg-endojournals.ru/jour/article/view/6572">https://www.surg-endojournals.ru/jour/article/view/6572</self-uri><abstract><p>Проведено ретроспективно-проспективное клиническое аналитическое исследование 137 пациентов с медулляр- ным раком щитовидной железы (МРЩЖ). Выявлена крайне низкая 35%-ная чувствительность тонкоигольной аспи- рационной биопсии и высокая чувствительность исследования уровня базального кальцитонина в диагностике МРЩЖ. Представлены результаты изучения спектра герминальных и спорадических мутаций генов RET и RAS на российской популяции, доказано влияние вида мутации на агрессивность течения МРЩЖ.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the study were enrolled 137 patients with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). Low 35%-sensitivity of FNAC and high accuracy of basal calcitonin in MTC diagnostics were found. Mutation analysis of the RET pro- tooncogene in familial and sporadic MTC, RAS -gene in sporadic MTC were done. The correlation between type of the mutation and disease aggressiveness was found.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>медуллярный рак щитовидной железы</kwd><kwd>синдром множественных эндокринных неоплазий 2 типа</kwd><kwd>кальцитонин</kwd><kwd>раковоэмбриональный антиген</kwd><kwd>RET-протоонкоген</kwd><kwd>тонкоигольная аспирационная биопсия</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>medullary thyroid cancer</kwd><kwd>multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2</kwd><kwd>calcitonin</kwd><kwd>CEA</kwd><kwd>RET-protooncogene</kwd><kwd>fine-needle aspiration citology</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Cohen MS, Moley JF. Surgical treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma. J Internal Med. 2003;253(6):616-626.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Cohen MS, Moley JF. Surgical treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma. 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