Familial occurrence of differentiated, nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma

作者：Osamu Ozaki, Kunihiko Ito, Kaoru Kobayashi, Akira Suzuki, Yoshitaka Manabe, Yasuhiro Hosoda · 发表于：World Journal of Surgery · 年份：1988 · DOI：10.1007/bf01655453 · 被引用次数：82 · 研究领域：Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Abstract Familial occurrence of differentiated, nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma in 23 patients from 11 families is reported. Five patients were male and 18 were female. The familial relationship of patients was “parent and child” in 12 cases from 6 families, and “siblings” in 11 cases from 5 families. Carcinoma of other organs was noted in other members in 8 families. Histological examination revealed 18 papillary, 2 follicular, and 2 anaplastic carcinomas (the 2 anaplastic carcinomas were considered to be transformed from preexisting differentiated carcinoma). In 1 case, the histological type was unknown. The average diameter of the primary lesion was 29.9 mm. Cervical lymph node metastasis was found in 77.8% and local recurrence in 28.6% of the patients. Solid and invasive growth was dominant. On HLA typing, phenotypes of B7 and DR1 were significantly redominant in familial patients compared with nonfamilial patients and normal Japanese. Moreover, the haplotype of B7‐Cw7‐DR1 was observed in 5 of 13 patients tested. It is suggested from these observations that some types of differentiated, nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma may show familial occurrence and that they may have common factors with regard to the genetic and immunologic basis of the disease.