Thyroid Follicular Epithelial Cell-Derived Carcinomas: An Overview of the Pathology of Primary and Recurrent Disease

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1079-1094

  Todd IV, William U ^a   Wenig, Bruce M ^b,c  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA AGONIST; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RETINOID; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; VIMENTIN;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNGECTOMY; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; ONCOCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 56749150850     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2008.08.001     Document Type: Review

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