Ultrasonographically detected small thyroid bed nodules identified after total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer seldom show clinically significant structural progression

Thyroid

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 845-853

  Rondeau, Geneviève ^a   Fish, Stephanie ^a   Hann, Lucy E ^a   Fagin, James A ^a   Tuttle, R Michael ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID BED NODULE; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961177135     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2011.0011     Document Type: Review

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