Advances in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of thyroid follicular carcinoma / 医学研究生学报

Thyroid follicular carcinoma (FTC) is one of the highly differentiated malignant tumors second only to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Its occurrence is mainly caused by the abnormal differentiation of thyroid follicular epithelial cells. Lymph node metastasis around FTC is rare, but distant tissue metastasis is more common. At present, there are few studies on the pathogenesis of FTC. The clinical diagnosis and treatment of FTC are mainly focused on imaging examination, fine needle aspiration and so on. Surgical resection is the main clinical treatment, with unfavourable prognosis. In this paper, the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of FTC were summarized, and the research progress of FTC was reviewed.