Incidental Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma in an Endemic Goiter Area
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Incidental Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma in an Endemic Goiter Area
Clinical and pathological characteristics of incidental papillary thyroid microcancer cases, surgical, medical, and nuclear treatment methods, and patients' outcome were studied during follow-up period of 102 months. We studied 37 patients with incidental papillary thyroid microcancer (I-PTM). The surgical procedure was total thyroidectomy in 29 and hemithyroidectomy in 8 patients. Size, multif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thyroid Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2090-8067,2042-0072
DOI: 10.1155/2016/1784397