Micromedullary thyroid cancer: How micro is truly micro?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2875-2881

  Pillarisetty, Venu G ^a   Katz, Steven C ^a   Ghossein, Ronald A ^a   Tuttle, R Michael ^a   Shaha, Ashok R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; ISTHMUSECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDULLARY THYROID CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; CALCITONIN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73349143979     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0595-1     Document Type: Article

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