Larger tumor size predicts nodal involvement in patients with follicular thyroid carcinoma

Tumori

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 296-301

  Pisanu, Adolfo ^a   Deplano, Daniela ^a   Pili, Michela ^a   Uccheddu, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Follicular carcinoma; Lymph node; Metastasis; Thyroid; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 79960873977     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: 20382529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1700/912.10025     Document Type: Article

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