Thyroid cancer invasion of neck structures: Epidemiology, evaluation, staging and management

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-94

  Morton, Randall P ^a,b   Ahmad, Zahoor ^a  

^a Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (New Zealand)

^b SAMC   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Extra thyroid spread; Morbidity; Papillary thyroid cancer; Prognosis; Staging

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESOPHAGUS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MORBIDITY; NECK; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL CARTILAGES; NECK MUSCLES; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247120095     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3280147348     Document Type: Review

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