Simultaneous medullary and papillary thyroid cancer: Two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Castano, Patrizia ^a   Bertolini, Valentina ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a   Rovera, Francesca ^a   Tanda, Maria Laura ^a   Capella, Carlo ^a   Bartalena, Luigi ^a   Dionigi, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 45249113758     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-1-133     Document Type: Article

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