Solitary metachronous metastasis to the thyroid from renal clear cell carcinoma 19 years after nephrectomy: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 483-487

  Wada, Nobuyuki ^a   Hirakawa, Shohei ^b   Rino, Yasushi ^b   Hasuo, Kimiatsu ^b   Kawachi, Kae ^a   Nakatani, Yukio ^a   Inui, Kenji ^a   Takanashi, Yoshinori ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Renal clear cell carcinoma; Thyroglobulin; Thyroid metastasis; Thyroid transcription factor 1

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NECK TUMOR; NEPHRECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 21044456605     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2953-8     Document Type: Article

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