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A Review of 249 Cases

LCDR J. R. Fletcher, MC, USN

AMA Arch Surg. 1970;100(3):257-262.

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Medullary (solid) carcinoma of the thyroid gland, although first described in 1951, was initially proposed as a clinical entity by Hazard et al¹ in 1959. Since that time, 249 cases have been reported in the English literature.^2-7 By a review and a statistical analysis of six series, we have investigated the natural history of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland.

Materials and Methods

Physician-authors gleaned data from clinical records for series of cases of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland in six medical centers: London Hospital⁷; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn8; M. D. Anderson Clinic, Galveston, Tex^5,6; University of California Hospital, San Francisco³; Cleveland Clinic, Ohio¹; and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.² In the ten-year period of reporting, beginning in 1959, the cases totaled 249. From the series as reported, there is no way of ascertaining an overlapping of case studies. Because the several authors stressed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md

From the Surgical Service, Naval Hospital, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 30, 1969.

The opinions or assertions contained herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department, or the naval service at large.

Reprint requests to Surgical Service, Naval Hospital, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md 20014 (LCDR Fletcher).

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