Surgical Therapy of Follicular Thyroid Cancer.
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New insights in thyroid follicular cell biology and its impact in thyroid cancer therapy.
Well-differentiated thyroid cancer has in general terms a very good outcome. It has a very slow growth rate and, although it metastasizes at a relatively high frequency, it has very high survival rates. Whereas the prevalence of nodular thyroid disease worldwide is high, malignant conversion from benign thyroid nodules is rare. Treatment of thyroid cancer is usually successful, but we still do ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai Kaiho
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0029-0645,1880-6848
DOI: 10.2468/jbes.50.410