Thyroid cancer with massive invasion into the neck and mediastinal great veins

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-57

  Motohashi, Shinichiro ^a   Sekine, Yasuo ^a   Iizasa, Toshihiko ^a   Nakano, Koichi ^a   Numata, Tsutomu ^a   Fujisawa, Takehiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Superior vena cava; Thyroid carcinoma; Tumor thrombus; Vascular reconstruction

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NECK TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLITEF IMPLANT; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR THROMBUS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 14544273362     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-005-1012-8     Document Type: Article

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