Detection of asymptomatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma by neck ultrasonographic screening for familial nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1099-1102

  Uchino, Shinya ^a   Noguchi, Shiro ^a   Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Murakami, Tsukasa ^a   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Ogawa, Takahiro ^a   Tsuno, Akiko ^a   Shuto, Shigeru ^a  

^a Noguchi Thyroid Clinic and Hospital Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CARCINOMA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILIAL NONMEDULLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 12144264653     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7676-x     Document Type: Article

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