Diagnosis and Therapeutic Strategy for Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma
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Diagnosis and therapeutic strategy for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma.
HYPOTHESIS Total thyroidectomy followed by radioactive iodine I 131 treatment is effective in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTM) with lymph node or extrathyroid invasion. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Chang Gung Medical Center, Linkou, Taiwan. PATIENTS A total of 227 patients with PTM, categorized into high-risk (n = 12) and low-risk (n = 215) groups according to age, metastases...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Surgery
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0004-0010
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.10.940