Occult micropapillary carcinoma associated with benign follicular thyroid disease and unrelated thyroid neoplasms

Modern Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 816-820

  Fink, Aliza ^a,b   Tomlinson, George ^a   Freeman, Jeremy L ^a   Rosen, Irving B ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benign thyroid disease; Occult micropapillary thyroid carcinomna

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029762813     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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