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Extent of surgery in clinically evident but operable MTC – when is central and/or lateral lympadenectomy indicated?

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) metastasizes very early lymphogeneously. It has been shown that the presence of lymph node metastases is associated with a worse outcome. Postoperative biochemical cure, i.e. normalization of posttherapeutical calcitonin levels, has been shown to correlate with a be...

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Autor principal: Gimm, Oliver
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23514526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-6614-6-S1-S3