Follicular thyroid cancer in children and adolescents: Clinicopathologic features, long-term survival, and risk factors for recurrence

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 629-635

  Enomoto, Keisuke ^a   Enomoto, Yukie ^a   Uchino, Shinya ^a   Yamashita, Hiroto ^a   Noguchi, Shiro ^a  

^a Noguchi Thyroid Clinic and Hospital Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Follicular thyroid cancer; Prognosis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR INVASION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878487978     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ12-0372     Document Type: Article

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