Metastases to the thyroid gland: Prevalence, clinicopathological aspects and prognosis: A 10-year experience

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-571

  Papi, Giampaolo ^a,e,f   Fadda, Guido ^c   Corsello, Salvatore Maria ^d   Corrado, Stefania ^b   Rossi, Esther Diana ^c   Radighieri, Elena ^a   Miraglia, Antonella ^c   Carani, Cesare ^a   Pontecorvi, Alfredo ^d  

^a Endocrinology Unit   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c Section of Anatomic Pathology and Histology   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e AUSL Modena   (Italy)

^f Ospedale 'Ramazzini'   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID METASTASIS; THYROIDECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947210192     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02773.x     Document Type: Article

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