Clinicopathologic significance of intrathyroidal epithelial thymoma/carcinoma showing thymus-like differentiation: A collaborative study with member Institutes of the Japanese Society of Thyroid Surgery

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-236

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a   Nakamura, Yasushi ^b   Miya, Akihiro ^b   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Kakudo, Kennichi ^b  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoma showing thymus like differentiation; CASTLE; Intrathyroidal epithelial thymoma; ITET; Prognosis; Thyroid neoplasm

Indexed keywords

CD5 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRATHYROIDAL EPITHELIAL CARCINOMA; INTRATHYROIDAL EPITHELIAL THYMOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYMOMA; THYMUS; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD5; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33847075906     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/VM7E52B6U9Q729DQ     Document Type: Article

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