Thyroid Cancer

✍ Scribed by R. Görges (auth.), H.-J. Biersack, F. Grünwald (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Changing Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 3-25
Histopathology, Immunohistochemistry, and Molecular Biology....Pages 27-53
Familial Differentiated Carcinoma of the Thyroid....Pages 55-67
The Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 69-79
The Current Surgical Approach to Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 81-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Radioiodine Therapy for Thyroid Cancer....Pages 93-120
Percutaneous Radiation Therapy....Pages 121-129
Thyroid Cancer: Treatment with Thyroid Hormone....Pages 131-138
Treatment with Cytotoxic Drugs....Pages 139-151
Redifferentiation Therapy of Thyroid Carcinomas with Retinoic Acid....Pages 153-163
Follow-up of Patients with Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer....Pages 165-180
Functional Imaging of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 181-192
Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 193-224
Thyroid Cancer in Chernobyl Children....Pages 225-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Diagnosis of Medullary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 239-249
Imaging in Medullary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 251-273
Therapy for Medullary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 275-284
Follow-up of Medullary Thyroid Cancer....Pages 285-294
Back Matter....Pages 295-301

✦ Subjects

Oncology; Nuclear Medicine; Endocrinology

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