Excellent prognosis of patients with nonhereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma with ultrasonographic findings of follicular tumor or benign nodule

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 963-968

  Fukushima, Mitsuhiro ^a   Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirokawa, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Miya, Akihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Akasu, Haruki ^b   Shimizu, Kazuo ^b   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 67349264102     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-9939-z     Document Type: Article

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