What is the Biology and Optimal Treatment for Papillary Microcarcinoma of the Thyroid?

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 160-162

  Cheema, Yusra ^a   Olson, Sarah ^a   Elson, Diane ^a   Chen, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

endocrine; microcarcinoma; papillary cancer; thyroid; thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33746253889     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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