Papillary thyroid carcinoma: The impact of therapy in 576 patients

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 171-196

  Mazzaferri, Ernest L ^a   Young, Robert L ^b   Oertel, James E ^c   Kemmerer, William T ^b   Page, Carey P ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE; THYROID HORMONE;

DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK DISSECTION; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERAPY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID GLAND, DESICCATED; THYROID HORMONES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0017693511     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-197705000-00001     Document Type: Article

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