A case of aggressive carcinoma showing thymus-like differentiation with distant metastases

Thyroid

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1383-1388

  Kusada, Noriko ^a,b,d   Hara, Yasuo ^b   Kobayashi, Shunzo ^b   Weihua, Tang ^c   Nakamura, Yasushi ^c   Kakudo, Kenichi ^c   Yuasa, Hiromitsu ^b  

^a Inazawa Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b Higashi Municipal Hospital of Nagoya   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Inazawa Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD5 ANTIGEN; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRATHYROID EPITHELIAL THYMOMA; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS; THYROID CARCINOMA;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD5; CHORISTOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31144434590     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.1383     Document Type: Article

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