Therapy and prognosis of medullary thyroid cancer

Böttger, T.; Klupp, J.; Sorger, K.; Junginger, T.

Medizinische Klinik 86(1): 8-14

1991


ISSN/ISBN: 0723-5003
PMID: 1673219
Document Number: 373124
Medullary thyroid cancers have different morphological, endocrine and biological qualities than all the other tumors of the thyroid. Therapy is the thyroidectomy with modified, radical neck dissection. The ten year survival rate was 65% in our own patient material. The prognosis depended on tumor size, invasion of vessels by the tumor, grade of differentiation, tumor stage, metastasis and radicality of the operation.

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