Changing clinical characteristics of thyroid carcinoma at a single center from Turkey: Before and after the Chernobyl disaster

Minerva Endocrinologica

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-274

  Ozdemir, D ^a   Dagdelen, S ^a   Kiratli, P ^a   Tuncel, M ^a   Erbas, B ^a   Erbas, T ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Histology Chernobyl nuclear accident; Thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84867451082     PISSN: 03911977     EISSN: 18271634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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