Features associated with locoregional spread of papillary carcinoma correlate with diagnostic category in the bethesda system for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 245-253

  VanderLaan, Paul A ^a   Marqusee, Ellen ^a   Krane, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bethesda system; Fine needle aspiration; Papillary carcinoma; Thyroid; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84868261423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.21189     Document Type: Article

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