Thymic carcinoma of the thyroid

Pathology International

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 450-456

  Watanabe, Itaru ^a,b   Tezuka, Fumiaki ^a   Yamaguchi, Masato ^a   Sagawa, Junji ^a   Kaise, Nobuko ^a  

^a Sendai Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

^b NTT East Tohoku Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

branchial pouch remnant; familial adenomatous polyposis; Hassall's corpuscle; medullary differentiation; thymic carcinoma; thymosin 1; thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0029807303     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1996.tb03636.x     Document Type: Article

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