Thyroid cancer: A comprehensive guide to clinical management
De Jong SA
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 124(9): 1391
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9985 PMID: 10975951 Document Number: 518481
Written by experts on the subject, this handbook is intended to serve as an up-to-date reference source for clinicians on the management of patients with thyroid cancers. Chapters are organized into nine sections under the following headings: the thyroid nodule, thyroid cancer: general considerations, differentiated tumors of the thyroid gland: papillary carcinoma, differentiated tumors of the thyroid gland: follicular carcinoma, undifferentiated cancers: anaplastic carcinoma, undifferentiated cancers: lymphoma, undifferentiated cancers: medullary carcinoma, miscellaneous and unusual cancers of the thyroid, and future directions. For each condition under study, information on the diagnostic evaluation, histopathology, medical and surgical approaches to therapy, natural history, and prognosis is presented. The text is adequately illustrated and includes a subject index and end-of-chapter references.