Partial thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: Is completion total thyroidectomy indicated?
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Thyroid microcarcinoma during thyroidectomy.
INTRODUCTION We aimed to retrospectively assess the prevalence of microcarcinoma in thyroidectomy specimens from a Greek population and the role of histopathology in determining management of these patients. METHODS We used histopathological reports of thyroidectomies performed in a Greek general district hospital. The samples consisted of 191 thyroidectomies performed between January 1997 an...
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Copyright: © 2012 Barczyński M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.02.012