Axillary node metastasis from differentiated thyroid carcinoma with hürthle and signet ring cell differentiation. A case of disseminated thyroid cancer with peculiar histologic findings

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chiofalo, Maria G ^a   Losito, Nunzia S ^a   Fulciniti, Franco ^a   Setola, Sergio V ^a   Tommaselli, Antonio ^a   Marone, Ugo ^a   Di Cecilia, Maria L ^a   Pezzullo, Luciano ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node metastasis; Distant metastases; Signet ring cells; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; UVOMORULIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE EXTIRPATION; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HURTHLE CELL CARCINOMA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; THYROID TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856414069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-55     Document Type: Article

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