Thyroid cancer: The Kuala Lumpur experience

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 660-664

  Abdullah, Muhammad ^a  

^a HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Malaysia; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SYMPTOM; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036378403     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02517.x     Document Type: Article

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