## Background: Papillary thyroid carcinomas represent a diversity of morphologic subtypes and variants, but to the authors' knowledge the prognostic significance of subclassification is not clear. therefore, the authors compared the value of histologic classification with a combined assessment of h
Prognostic importance of histologic grading in papillary thyroid carcinoma
β Scribed by Lars A. Akslen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 567 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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