Significance of an insular component in follicular thyroid carcinoma with distant metastasis at initial presentation

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-48

  Yamashita, Hiroto ^a   Noguchi, Yasushi ^a   Noguchi, Shiro ^a   Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Uchino, Shinya ^a   Watanabe, Shinn ^a   Ogawa, Takahiro ^a   Murakami, Tsukasa ^a  

^a Hospital Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distant metastasis; Follicular carcinoma; Insular carcinoma; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; THYROGLOBULIN;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TRABECULAR BONE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 24644510285     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/ep:16:1:041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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