Management considerations for differentiated thyroid carcinoma presenting as a metastasis to the skull base

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1146-1152

  Mydlarz, Wojciech K ^a   Wu, Julie ^a   Aygun, Nafi ^a   Olivi, Alessandro ^a   Carey, John P ^a   Westra, William H ^a   Tufano, Ralph P ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Clivus; Diagnosis; Differentiated thyroid carcinoma; Follicular carcinoma; Management; Metastasis; Papillary carcinoma; Petrous bone; Pituitary; Prognosis; Sella turcica; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34347349223     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318058192e     Document Type: Article

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