Thyroid as a target of metastases. A case of foregut neuroendocrine carcinoma with multiple abdominal metastases and a thyroid localization after 21 years

Tumori

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-113

  Mattavelli, Franco ^a   Collini, Paola ^a   Pizzi, Natalia ^a   Gervasoni, Carlo ^b   Pennacchioli, Elisabetta ^a   Mazzaferro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foregut neuroendocrine carcinoma; Thyroid metastases; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON RESECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KIDNEY CANCER; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG CANCER; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

EID: 41749086235     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160809400119     Document Type: Article

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