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All patients accepted radical surgery. All patients accepted postoperative radiotherapy, except one 79-year-old patient. There was no evidence of recurrence or metastasis during the follow-up period. The pattern of immunohistochemical staining was similar to that of thymic carcinoma. Six of 8 CASTLE cases expressed CD5. All 8 CASTLE patients were negatively expressed in thyroglobulin, thyroid transcription factor 1, and calcitonin. Patients with thyroid CASTLE have good outcomes after radical resection and postoperative radiotherapy. Positive CD5 immunoreactivity can contribute to diagnosis of this disease.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.9738\/intsurg-d-12-00034.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,23]],"date-time":"2013-05-23T14:58:28Z","timestamp":1369321108000},"page":"95-100","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Clinical Analysis of Thyroid Carcinoma Showing Thymus-Like Differentiation: Report of 8 Cases"],"prefix":"10.9738","volume":"98","author":[{"given":"Zhen","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xu-Yong","family":"Teng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Da-Xin","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei-Xue","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shao-Long","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4721","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"i0020-8868-98-2-95-b01","series-title":"World J Surg","first-page":"128","article-title":"Intrathyroidal epithelial thymoma: an entity distinct from squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid","volume":"9","author":"Miyauchi\n              A,","year":"1985","unstructured":"Miyauchi\n              A, \n            \n              Kuma\n              K, \n            \n              Matsuzuka\n              F, \n            \n              Matsubayashi\n              S, \n            \n              Kobayashi\n              A, \n            \n              Tamai\n              H\n            \n            et al\n          . 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