Clinical significance of metastasis to the central compartment from papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-99

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Tomoda, Chisato ^a   Uruno, Takashi ^a   Takamura, Yuuki ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Matsuzuka, Fumio ^a   Kuma, Kanji ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISSECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 30544451178     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0113-y     Document Type: Article

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