BMJ · 1980 · 69 citations · 6 references
MedicineOncologyPathologyCardiac Nuclear MedicineHematopathologyRadiobiologyRadiation TherapyThrombosisThyroid CancerThyroid DisordersIrradiation EffectsPrenatal Cardiac ScreeningRadiation-associated Thyroid CancerRadiation-induced CancerThromboxane BiosynthesisThyroid Cancer PathologyThyroid Tumor HistopathologyWell-differentiated Tumors
the observations of Martin and Olson.2Other reports of radiation- induced thyroid cancer have dealt with the consequences of therapeutic irradiation.The history of past irradiation in our first patient was not obtained until his brother also developed a cancer, when W~~H istological appearances of well-differentiated papillary carcinoma of thyroid from two brothers.Above: case 1. Below: case 2. Haematoxylin and eosin x 100 (original magnification).inquiry was much more searching.Hence it is clearly important to pay careful attention to a history of special diagnostic procedures, particu- larly cardiac screening.
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