Prognosis of patients with benign thyroid diseases accompanied by incidental papillary carcinoma undetectable on preoperative imaging tests

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1672-1676

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^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

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 34447309606     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9131-2     Document Type: Article

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