Controversies in thyroid pathology: Thyroid capsule invasion and extrathyroidal extension

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 386-391

  Mete, Ozgur ^a,b   Rotstein, Lorne ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DISTANT METASTASIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PARATHYROID GLAND; PARATHYROID TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDITIS;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77149162368     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0832-7     Document Type: Review

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