2012 European Thyroid Association Guidelines for Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer
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2012 European thyroid association guidelines for metastatic medullary thyroid cancer.
Distant metastases are the main cause of death in patients with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). These 21 recommendations focus on MTC patients with distant metastases and a detailed follow-up protocol of patients with biochemical or imaging evidence of disease, selection criteria for treatment, and treatment modalities, including local and systemic treatments based on the results of recent tria...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endocrine Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2310-3965,2306-3513
DOI: 10.14341/serg2013217-28