Prognostic significance of extrathyroid extension of papillary thyroid carcinoma: Massive but not minimal extension affects the relapse-free survival

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 780-786

  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

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PROGNOSIS; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33646549546     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0270-z     Document Type: Article

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