Follicular thyroid cancer: Minimally invasive tumours can give rise to metastases

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 136-139

  Ban, Ee Jun ^a   Andrabi, Ali ^c   Grodski, Simon ^a   Yeung, Meei ^a   Mclean, Catriona ^b   Serpell, Jonathan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Follicular diagnosis; Follicular pathology; Follicular surgery; Iodine radioisotope therapeutic use; Neoplasm metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857799478     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2011.05979.x     Document Type: Article

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