Prognosis and prognostic factors of follicular carcinoma in Japan: Importance of postoperative pathological examination

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1417-1424

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirokawa, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Higashiyama, Takuya ^a   Takamura, Yuuki ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Matsuzuka, Fumio ^a   Kuma, Kanji ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34250687538     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9095-2     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Yokozawa T, Miyauchi A, Kuma K, et al. (1995) Accurate and simple method of diagnosing thyroid nodules by the modified technique of ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy. Thyroid 5:141-145
2. Mazafferi EL, Kloos RT (2005) Carcinoma of follicular epithelium: radioiodine and other treatments and outcomes. In: Braverman LE, Utiger RD, editors, The Thyroid, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 934-966
3. DeLellis RA, Lloyd RV, Heitz PU, et al. (2004) WHO Classification of Tumours, Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of Endocrine Organs. IARC Press, Lyon, France, 73-76
4. Sobin LH, Wittekind Ch, editors (2002) UICC: TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors, 6th Edition, New York, Wiley-Liss
5. Segal K, Arad A, Lubin E, et al. (1994) Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid. Head Neck 16:533-538
6. Szanto J, Ringwald G, Karika Z, et al. (1991) Follicular cancer of the thyroid gland. Oncology 48:483-489
7. Mueller-Gaertner HW, Brzac HT, Rehpenning W (1991) Prognostic indices for tumor relapse and tumor mortality in follicular thyroid carcinoma. Cancer 67:1903-1911
8. Brennan MD, Bergstralh EJ, van Heerden JA, et al. (1991) Follicular thyroid cancer treated at the Mayo Clinic, 1946 through 1970: initial manifestations, pathologic findings, therapy, and outcome. Mayo Clin Proc 66:11-22
9. Lin JE, Huang HS, Chen SC, et al. (1997) Factors that predict metastasis of papillary and follicular thyroid cancers in Taiwan. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 116:475-482
10. Passler C, Scheuba C, Prager G, et al. (2004) Prognostic factors of papillary and follicular thyroid cancer: differences in an iodine-replete endemic goiter region. Endocr Relat Cancer 11:131-139
11. Witte J, Goretzki PE, Dieken J, et al. (2002) Importance of lymph node metastasis in follicular thyroid cancer. World J Surg 26:1017-1022
12. Besic N, Zgajnar J, Hocevar M, et al. (2005) Is patient's age a prognostic factor for follicular thyroid carcinoma in the TNM classification system? Thyroid 15:439-448
13. Chow SM, Law SCK, Mendenhall WM, et al. (2002) Follicular thyroid carcinoma. Cancer 95:488-498
14. Shaha AR, Loree TR, Shah JP (1995) Prognostic factors and risk group analysis in follicular carcinoma of the thyroid. Surgery 118:1131-1138
15. Haigh PI, Urbach DR (2005) The treatment and prognosis of Hurthle cell follicular thyroid carcinioma compared with its non-Hurthle cell counterpart. Surgery 138:1152-1158
16. Lang W, Choritz H, Hundeshagen H (1986) Risk factors in follicular thyroid carcinomas. Am J Surg Pathol 10:246-255
17. Crile G, Pontius KI, Hawk WA (1985) Factors influencing the survival of patients with follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland. Surg Gynecol Obstet 160:409-413
18. Joensuu H, Klemi PJ, Paul R, et al. (1986) Survival and prognostic factors in thyroid carcinoma. Acta Radiol Oncol 25:243-248
19. Eichhorn W, Tabler H, Lippold R, et al. (2003) Prognostic factors determining long-term survival in well-differentiated thyroid cancer: an analysis of four hundred eighty-four patients undergoing therapy and aftercare at the same institution. Thyroid 13:949-958
20. Tsang WR, Brierley JD, Simpson WJ, et al. (1998) The effects of surgery, radioiodine, and external radiation therapy on the clinical outcome of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Cancer 82:375-388
21. Simpson WJ, McKinney SE, Carruthers JS, et al. (1987) Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer. Am J Med 87:479-487
22. Grebe SKG, Hay ID (1995) Follicular thyroid cancer. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 24:761-801
23. Williams ED (1990) TSH and thyroid cancer. Horm Metab Res Suppl 138:10-28
24. Bakiri F, Djemli FK, Mokrane LA, et al. (1998) The relative roles of endemic goiter and socioeconomic development status in the prognosis of thyroid carcinoma. Cancer 82:1146-1153
25. Feldt-Rasmussen U (2001) Iodine and cancer. Thyroid 11:483-486
26. Wibder EK (1952) Some practical aspects of cancer prevention. N Engl J Med 246:573
27. Franceschi S, Talamini R, Fassina A, et al. (1990) Diet and epithelial cnacer of the thyroid gland. Tumori 76:331-338
28. Pendergrast WJ, Milmore BK, Marcus SC (1961) Thyroid cancer and thyrotoxicosis in the United States: their relation to endemic goiter. J Chronic Dis 13:22
29. Ito Y, Miyauchi A, Jikuzono T, et al. Risk factors contributing to a poor prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma; validity of UICC/AJCC TNM classification and stage grouping. World J Surg 31:838-848
30. Sanders LE, Silverman M (1998) Follicular and Hurthle cell carcinoma: predicting outcome and directing therapy. Surgery 124:967-974
31. Hundahl SA, Fleming ID, Fremgen AM, et al. (1998) A national Cancer Data Base report on 53,856 cases of thyroid carcinoma treated in the US, 1985-1995. Cancer 83:2638-2648
32. Lopez-Penabad L, Chiu AC, Hoff AO, et al. (2003) Prognostic factors in patients with Hurthle cell neoplasms of the thyroid. Cancer 97:180-188