Open AccessPrognostic Importance of Histologic Vascular Invasion in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Author(s) -
L Falvo,
A Catania,
Vito D’Andrea,
A Marzullo,
Maria Cristina Giustiniani,
Enrico De Antoni
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000157317.60536.08
Subject(s) - medicine , vascular invasion , thyroid carcinoma , pathology , papillary carcinoma , carcinoma , thyroid , oncology , cancer
To conduct a retrospective study of 39 patients with papillary carcinoma of the thyroid with histologic vascular invasion (VI+) and 361 patients without any sign of vascular invasion (VI-).