BACKGROUND. Among patients with well differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma who generally have an excellent prognosis and a near-normal lifespan, there exist subsets of patients who have significant risk for morbidity and mortality from this disease. It is important to define the patterns of dis
Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma after the Detection of Distant Recurrence
β Scribed by Yasuhiro Ito; Takuya Higashiyama; Yuuki Takamura; Kaoru Kobayashi; Akihiro Miya; Akira Miyauchi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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