Insular thyroid carcinoma in adolescents. A potentially lethal endocrine malignancy

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1044-1048

  Hassoun, Ahmed A K ^a   Hay, Ian D ^a   Goellner, John R ^a   Zimmerman, Donald ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; cerebral metastases; insular carcinoma; radioactive iodine; thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IODINE 131 UPTAKE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031051515     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970301)79:5<1044::AID-CNCR23>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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