Value of mass screening for thyroid cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-102

  Miki, Hitoshi ^a   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Komaki, Kansei ^a   Uyama, Tadashi ^a   Morimoto, Tadaoki ^b   Monden, Yasumasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031963403     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900356     Document Type: Article

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