Survival implications of cervical lymphadenectomy in patients with medullary thyroid cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1028-1034

  Kandil, Emad ^a   Gilson, Marta M ^b   Alabbas, Haytham H ^a   Tufaro, Anthony P ^b   Dackiw, Alan ^b   Tufano, Ralph P ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955792047     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1363-y     Document Type: Article

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