Five-year follow-up of percutaneous ethanol injection for the treatment of hyperfunctioning thyroid nodules: A study of 117 patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-15

  Monzani, Fabio ^a   Caraccio, Nadia ^a   Goletti, Orlando ^a   Lippolis, Piero V ^a   Casolaro, Arturo ^a   Del Guerra, Paolo ^a   Cavina, Enrico ^a   Miccoli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROPRANOLOL; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INJECTION; INTRATUMORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 0031032477     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.d01-1752.x     Document Type: Article

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