Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus

International Congress Series

Volumn 1299, Issue , 2007, Pages 32-38

  Demidchik, Yuri E ^a,b   Demidchik, Eugene P ^a,b   Saenko, Vladimir A ^c,d   Reiners, Christoph ^e   Biko, Johannes ^e   Mankovskaya, Svetlana V ^b   Yamashita, Shunichi ^c,f  

^a BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^b Thyroid Cancer Center   (Belarus)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d MEDICAL RADIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pediatric thyroid cancer; Recurrence; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847680115     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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