Metastasis of rectal adenocarcinoma: An unusual cause of rapidly enlarging thyroid mass with myxedema

Thyroid

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 279-280

  Ishay, Avraham ^a   Dharan, Muralee ^a,b   Luboshitzky, Rafael ^a,b  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; METASTASIS; MYXEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID MASS; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MYXEDEMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34147176054     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.0114     Document Type: Article

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