Prognostic impact of extrathyroid extension and clinical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma depend on carcinoma size

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3007-3014

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

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78651323510     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0776-x     Document Type: Article

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