Metastasis of a Rectal Adenocarcinoma to the Thyroid Gland: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6 D, 2003, Pages 4973-4976

  Hacker, Ulrich ^a   Lenz, Georg ^a   Brehm, Gerd ^a   Müller Höcker, Josef ^b   Schalhorn, Andreas ^a   Hiddemann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case report; Colorectal carcinoma; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Thyroidal gland metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0842278706     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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