Anaplastic giant cell carcinoma of the thyroid gland: Treatment and survival over a 25-year period

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 725-730

  Nilsson, Ola ^a   Lindeberg, Johan ^a   Zedenius, Jan ^a   Ekman, Eva ^a   Tennvall, Jan ^b   Blomgren, Henric ^a   Grimelius, Lars ^c   Lundell, Göran ^a   Wallin, Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGITIS; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, GIANT CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031863942     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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