Invasion rather than nuclear features correlates with outcome in encapsulated follicular tumors: Further evidence for the reclassification of the encapsulated papillary thyroid carcinoma follicular variant

Human Pathology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 657-664

  Ganly, Ian ^a   Wang, Laura ^a   Tuttle, R Michael ^a   Katabi, Nora ^a   Ceballos, Gustavo A ^b   Harach, H Ruben ^b   Ghossein, Ronald ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Dr A Onativia Hospital   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Carcinomas; Encapsulated; Follicular variant; Papillary; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENCAPSULATED FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INVASIVE ENCAPSULATED FOLLICULAR VARIANT OF PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONINVASIVE ENCAPSULATED FOLLICULAR VARIANT OF PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME; CARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84930976911     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2015.01.010     Document Type: Article

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