Publications by authors named "Felix M Watzka"
Introduction: BRAF mutations and RET or NTRK1 rearrangements were identified as causing events that drive the malignant transformation of the thyroid follicular cell. The impact of these alterations on the course of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is still unsettled.
Patients And Methods: Tumor tissues of 290 (98 male, 192 female) patients were intra-operatively snap frozen or harvested from archival paraffin-embedded blocks and used for extraction of DNA and RNA.