Occult papillary thyroid carcinoma: Diagnostic and clinical implications in the era of routine ultrasonography

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1955-1960

  Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirokawa, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Fukushima, Mitsuhiro ^a   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Yabuta, Tomonori ^a   Uruno, Takashi ^a   Kihara, Minoru ^a   Higashiyama, Takuya ^a   Takamura, Yuuki ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Matsuzuka, Fumio ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OCCULT PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 49749106239     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9614-9     Document Type: Article

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