Prognostic factors of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 394-398

  Kihara, Minoru ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^b   Yamauchi, Akira ^a   Yokomise, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma; Complete resection; Prognostic factor

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2442593793     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2737-6     Document Type: Article

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