Metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the thyroid gland: A clinicopathologic study of 36 cases

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1869-1878

  Heffess, Clara S ^a   Wenig, Bruce M ^b   Thompson, Lester D ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Metastatic disease; Prognosis; Renal cell carcinoma; Surgery; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036839731     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10901     Document Type: Article

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