Skip Metastases in Thyroid Cancer Leaping the Central Lymph Node Compartment

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-45

  Machens, Andreas ^a   Holzhausen, Hans Jürgen ^a   Dralle, Henning ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; COHORT STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346368237     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.1.43     Document Type: Article

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