Pathological definition and clinical significance of vascular invasion in thyroid carcinomas of follicular epithelial derivation

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1545-1552

  Mete, Ozgur ^a,b   Asa, Sylvia L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

angioinvasion; papillary thyroid carcinoma; pseudoinvasion; risk factors; vascular invasion; well differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER INVASION; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 82555191091     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.119     Document Type: Article

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