Thyroid metastases from renal cell carcinoma: Review of the literature

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Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages 590-602

  Sindoni, Alessandro ^a   Rizzo, Massimo ^a   Tuccari, Giovanni ^a   Ieni, Antonio ^a   Barresi, Valeria ^a   Calbo, Letterio ^a   Cucinotta, Eugenio ^a   Trimarchi, Francesco ^a   Benvenga, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kidney; Metastasis; Renal cell carcinoma; Thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIMARY TUMOR; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77952924923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2010.55     Document Type: Review

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