Risk factors for nodal metastasis and recurrence among patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: Differences in clinical relevance between nonincidental and incidental tumors

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 460-468

  Pisanu, Adolfo ^a   Reccia, Isabella ^a   Nardello, Oreste ^a   Uccheddu, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NODULAR GOITER; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLARY THYROID MICROCARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60449090301     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9870-8     Document Type: Article

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