Clinical course of insular thyroid carcinoma

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Luna Ortiz, Kuauhyama ^a   Hurtado López, Luis Mauricio ^b   Domínguez Malagón, Hugo ^a   Ramírez Marín, Ricardo ^a   Zaldivar Ramírez, Felipe Rafael ^b   Herrera Gomez, Angel ^a   Barrera Franco, Jose Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Insular carcino; Thyroid; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542406532     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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