Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: How Have Histologic Diagnoses Changed in the Last Half-Century and What Are the Prognostic Implications?

Thyroid

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1209-1216

  Cipriani, Nicole A ^a   Nagar, Sapna ^b   Kaplan, Sharone P ^a   White, Michael G ^a   Antic, Tatjana ^a   Sadow, Peter M ^c   Aschebrook Kilfoy, Briseis ^a   Angelos, Peter ^a   Kaplan, Edwin L ^a   Grogan, Raymon H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA; FOLLICULAR ADENOMA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POORLY DIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; THYROID TUMOR; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946729857     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2015.0297     Document Type: Article

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