Alternative surgical strategies and favorable outcomes in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma in Japan: Experience of a single institution

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-66

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

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; RET GENE; SIPPLE SYNDROME; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CALCITONIN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149289843     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9795-2     Document Type: Article

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