Incidence and significance of clinically unsuspected thyroid tissue in lymph nodes found during neck dissection in head and neck carcinoma patients

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 470-474

  León, Xavier ^a   Sancho, Francisco José ^a   García, Jacinto ^a   Sañudo, Jose Ramón ^b   Orús, César ^a   Quer, Miquel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benign thyroid inclusions; Neck metastases; Thyroid cancer metastases

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; THYROGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHORISTOMA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 14744270905     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000157841.63283.87     Document Type: Review

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