The increase in thyroid cancer incidence is not only due to papillary microcarcinomas: A 40-year study in 1778 patients

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 397-401

  Pazaitou Panayiotou, K ^a   Iliadou, P K ^a   Chrisoulidou, A ^a   Mitsakis, P ^a   Doumala, E ^a   Fotareli, A ^a   Boudina, M ^a   Mathiopoulou, L ^a   Patakiouta, F ^a   Tziomalos, K ^a  

^a THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

cancer; increase in thyroid cancer; microcarcinoma; papillary; thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLARY MICROCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND; TUMOR INVASION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84880068151     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1345125     Document Type: Article

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