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- Title
Prognosis of patients with benign thyroid diseases accompanied by incidental papillary carcinoma undetectable on preoperative imaging tests.
- Authors
Ito, Yasuhiro; Higashiyama, Takuya; Takamura, Yuuki; Miya, Akihiro; Kobayashi, Kaoru; Matsuzuka, Fumio; Kuma, Kanji; Miyauchi, Akira
- Abstract
Despite the recent wide availability of ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration biopsy, endocrine surgeons often encounter incidental papillary carcinoma (IPC), that is a papillary carcinoma that had gone undetected by preoperative imaging studies but was identified by pathological examination of surgical specimens resected for benign thyroid diseases.
- Publication
World journal of surgery, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 8, p1672
- ISSN
0364-2313
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00268-007-9131-2