Thyroid microcarcinoma

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-389

  Pacini, Furio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

papillary thyroid cancer; radioiodine therapy; thyroid cancer; thyroid microcarcinoma

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PATCHED; PROTEIN RET; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; THYROGLOBULIN;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; AUTOPSY; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISTANT METASTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAVES DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICRO PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLE CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; TUMOR ABLATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; PREVALENCE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84861562393     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.10.006     Document Type: Review

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