Differentiated thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents: A 37-year experience in 85 patients

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 669-675

  Dottorini, Massimo E ^a  

^a OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

children; differentiated thyroid cancer; radioiodine therapy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030926257     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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