## BACKGROUND. A preoperative diagnosis of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MCT) allows for the investigation of associated multiple endocrine neoplasia/ pheochromocytoma, and definitive surgery without the need for frozen section. Criteria for cytodiagnosis are well known but variable patterns
Production of several substances by medullary carcinoma of the thyroid
โ Scribed by Takeshi Iwanaga; Hiroki Koyama; Setsuo Uchiyama; Yoshikazu Takahashi; Shunnichi Nakano; Tadao Itoh; Takeshi Horai; Akira Wada; Ryuhei Tateishi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 796 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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