Metastatic medullary thyroid cancer in a pediatric patient with MEN 2B: Emphasis on the need for early recognition of extrathyroidal clinical findings associated with MEN 2B

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 463-467

  Barrows, Frank P ^a   Shockley, William W ^b   Wright, John D ^b   Susswein, Lisa ^a   Evans, Jim ^a   Funkhouser, William K ^b   Loechner, Karen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ADRENALIN; CALCITONIN; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; CREATININE; DNA; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; LEVOTHYROXINE; METADRENALIN; NORMETADRENALIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHORUS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; NECK TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID CARCINOMA;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CHILD; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2B; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33747482079     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922806289625     Document Type: Article

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