Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 906-912 , November 2009

Long-term outcome of “prophylactic therapy” for familial medullary thyroid cancer

  • Elisabeth Schellhaas, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery I, Charité Medical School, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Charlotte König

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery I, Charité Medical School, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Karin Frank-Raue, MD

      Affiliations

    • Private Practice in Endocrinology, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Heinz-J. Buhr, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery I, Charité Medical School, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Hubert G. Hotz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery I, Charité Medical School, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Hubert G. Hotz, MD, Charité Medical School, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Surgery I, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany.

,Accepted 5 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.007

Surgery
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