Insular component as a risk factor of thyroid carcinoma

Pathology International

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 939-946

  Sasaki, Atsushi ^a   Daa, Tsutomu ^a   Kashima, Kenji ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeo ^a   Nakayama, Iwao ^a   Noguchi, Shiro ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Noguchi Thyroid Clin Hosp Found   (Japan)

Author keywords

clinicopathological study; insular carcinoma; insular component; multivariate analysis; thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CARCINOMA;

EID: 0030473894     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1996.tb03572.x     Document Type: Article

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