Problems encountered in the diagnosis of encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma and the morphological diagnostic criteria

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-22

  Köseoǧlu, Reşit Doǧan ^a   Onuk Filiz, Nurper ^a   Aladaǧ, Ibrahim ^a   Eyibilen, Ahmet ^a   Güven, Mehmet ^a  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clinical features; Encapsulated follicular variant; Papillary thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARCINOGENS; CLINICAL LABORATORIES; ENCAPSULATION; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

CLINICAL FEATURES; HISTOPATHOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE PATHOLOGY; THYROID LESIONS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENCAPSULATED FOLLICULAR PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; ENCAPSULATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 32544435955     PISSN: 13000144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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