Surgical management of patients with persistent or recurrent medullary thyroid cancer

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 243, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 521-526

  Moley, J F ^a,b   Debenedetti, M K ^a   Dilley, W G ^a   Tisell, L E ^a   Wells, S A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Queeny Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Calcitonin; Laparoscopy; Lymph node metastasis; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; Multiple endocrine neoplasia; RET gene

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031835631     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1998.00333.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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