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The surgical strategy and the molecular analysis of patients with parathyroid cancer.
World journal of surgery - 1 Nov 2010
Enomoto Keisuke, Uchino Shinya, Ito Akiko, Watanabe Shin, Shibuya Hiroshi, Enomoto Yukie, Noguchi Shiro
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BACKGROUND: Parathyroid cancer is a rare endocrine tumor, and the prognostic factors for this cancer remain unclear. The standard therapy is en bloc resection of the primary tumor at the time of the initial operation. However, the clinical significance of prophylactic neck dissection (PND) in the management of parathyroid cancer has not yet been established. In this study, we investigated its clinical...
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