Over the past 25 years, 23 children with carcinoma of the thyroid have been treated at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. Twenty-one cases were well-differentiated carcinoma, and two were medullary carcinoma. They were all treated by resection, 14 with total thyroidectomy and 9 with lobectomy or sub
A twenty-year experience with thyroid carcinoma in children
β Scribed by Jean G. Desjardins; Juan Bass; Gilles Leboeuf; Maria Di Lorenzo; Jacques Letarte; Abid H. Khan; Pierre Simard
- Book ID
- 117158633
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 504 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-3468
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