Lymph node dissection in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma - Who benefits?

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 383, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 355-358

  Mann, B ^a   Buhr, H J ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiated thyroid carcinoma; Lymph node metastases; Prognostic factors; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0031764722     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004230050148     Document Type: Review

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