Prophylactic thyroidectomy in 75 children and adolescents with hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma: German and Austrian experience

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 744-751

  Dralle, Henning ^a   Gimm, Oliver ^a   Simon, Dietmar ^b   Frank Raue, Karin ^c   Görtz, Günter ^d   Niederle, Bruno ^e   Wahl, Robert A ^f   Koch, Bernd ^g   Walgenbach, Siegfried ^h   Hampel, Rainer ⁱ   Ritter, Michael M ^j   Spelsberg, Fritz ^k   Heiss, A ^l   Hinze, Raoul ^a   Höppner, Wolfgang ^m  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Innere Medizin   (Germany)

^d St Marien Hospital   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f Burgerhospital Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

^g Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

ⁱ JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^k Martha und Maria Helfen Krankenhaus Munchen   (Germany)

^l KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^m Inst Hormon F   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE RET; PARATHYROID TRANSPLANTATION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SIPPLE SYNDROME; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRIA; CALCITONIN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 15644377401     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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