Tall Cell Variant: An Aggressive Form of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 352-357

  Prendiville, Stephen ^a   Burman, Kenneth D ^b   Ringel, Matthew D ^b   Shmookler, Barry M ^b   Deeb, Ziad E ^c   Wolfe, Katherine ^a   Azumi, Norio ^a   Wartofsky, Leonard ^b   Sessions, Roy B ^b  

^a Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Division of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CELL SHAPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PROGNOSIS; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034014554     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(00)70047-7     Document Type: Article

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