Thyroid tumors with a follicular growth pattern: Problems in differential diagnosis

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 984-988

  Suster, Saul ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NODULAR GOITER; PAPILLOMA; REVIEW; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745968380     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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