Follicular variant of papillary thyroid cancer - Encapsulated, nonencapsulated, and diffuse: Distinct biologic and clinical entities

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-233

  Gupta, Sachin ^a   Ajise, Oluyomi ^a   Dultz, Linda ^a   Wang, Beverly ^a   Nonaka, Daisuke ^a   Ogilvie, Jennifer ^a   Heller, Keith S ^a   Patel, Kepal N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE FOLLICULAR VARIANT OF PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCAPSULATED FOLLICULAR VARIANT OF PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER; ENCAPSULATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONENCAPSULATED FOLLICULAR VARIANT OF PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; ONCOGENE RET; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863370412     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2011.1466     Document Type: Article

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