BRAF and neoplasm: We analyzed the association between the existence of the BRAF V600E mutation as well as the normalized values of the proportion of the mutated allele BRAF V600E with disease dissemination, age, sex, tumor size, capsule breakthrough, angioinvasion, dissemination within the thyroid gland, extrathyroidal expansion and infiltration of the lymph node capsule, in case of local metastases.