Anaplastic (undifferentiated) thyroid carcinoma (ATC): A retrospective analysis

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 384, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 284-293

  Passler, Christian ^a   Scheuba, Christian ^a   Prager, Gerhard ^a   Kaserer, Klaus ^b   Flores, Juan A ^b   Vierhapper, Heinrich ^a   Niederle, Bruno ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anaplastic; Palliative; Radical; Surgery; Thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0032991273     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004230050205     Document Type: Article

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