Medullary carcinoma in a lingual thyroid

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-253

  Yaday, S ^a   Singh, I ^a   Singh, J ^a   Aggarwal, Neeraj ^a,b  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b C/o Dr SPS Yadav ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Calcitonin; Ectopic thyroid; Lingual thyroid; Medullary carcinoma; Thyroid carcinoma; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LINGUAL THYROID; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PHARYNGOCUTANEOUS FISTULA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CARCINOMA; TONGUE TUMOR; VOICE;

CALCITONIN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUAL THYROID; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TONGUE;

EID: 42249104718     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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