Circulating microRNA as potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of well-differentiated thyroid cancer: A review article.

Half of all people aged 50 and over develop a thyroid nodule in their lifetime, exclusion of cancer is required in each case. Nodule tissue sampling is performed by way of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB), however a definite diagnosis is possible only in 30% of cases. The discovery of a diagnostic biomarker to discriminate between thyroid cancer and benign nodules would therefore greatly improve current clinical practice.

A prevertebral desmoplastic fibroblastoma presenting with sleep-related breathing dysfunction.

Desmoplastic fibromas exceedingly rarely present in the retro/parapharyngeal space but should be considered in differential diagnosis for benign lumps in these anatomical regions.