Clinical features and therapeutic implication of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma

Thyroid

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1085-1092

  Pazaitou Panayiotou, Kalliopi ^a   Capezzone, Marco ^b   Pacini, Furio ^b  

^a THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROTEIN RET; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; ATOMIC BOMB; AUTOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NODULAR GOITER; ONCOGENE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; REVIEW; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36749012389     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2007.0005     Document Type: Review

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