Review Article
Role of Estrogen in Thyroid Function and Growth Regulation
Table 2
Estrogen receptors (ER) α and β in human normal thyroid, and benign and malignant thyroid diseases, by immunohistochemistry (IHC).
| Study | Isoform | All benign | All carcinoma | Benign lesions | Carcinoma | Adenoma | Goiter | Papillary | Follicular | Medullary | Anaplastic |
| Vaiman et al. [31]; 2010 | ERα | | | 0/34 | 0/150 | 0/90 | 0/6 | 0/4 | 0/5 | | ERβ | | | 30/34 | 126/150 | 60/90 | 4/6 | 3/4 | 3/5 | Winters et al. [32]; 2010 | ERα | | | | | 1/1 | | | | Vannucchi et al. [33]; 2010 | ERα | | 12/38 | | | | | | | Cho et al. [34]; 2007 | ERα | | | | | | | 10/11 | | | ERβ | | | | | | | 8/11 | | Bléchet et al. [35]; 2007 | ERα | | | | | | | 0/28 | | | ERβ | | | | | | | 26/28 | | Ceresini et al. [36]; 2006 | ERα | | | | 0/17 | 0/17 | | | | | ERβ | | | | 17/17 | 14/17 | | | |
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Data are shown as number of ER-positive samples/total number of samples.
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