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Background and Purpose: Surviving is one of the eight members of the human inhibitors of apoptosis (IAP), which appears to be differentially expressed in cancer cells. This study was conducted to evaluate the clinical usefulness of survivin immunostaining to distinguish between follicular adenoma and carcinoma of thyroid.
Methods and Materials: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical research. The study population was tissue samples from surgery patients at Shariati Hospital in Tehran, Iran. All samples were studied through immunohistochemical staining for surviving.
Results: Surviving expression was significantly (p
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