Liver metastasis from thyroid carcinoma 32 years after resection of the primary tumor: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 480-482

  Kouso, Hidenori ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Ezaki, Takahiro ^a   Ishida, Teruyoshi ^a   Aimitsu, Shiomi ^a   Fujihara, Megumu ^a   Mori, Masaki ^a  

^a ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver metastasis; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MICROSCOPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21044447231     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2949-4     Document Type: Article

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