The role of frozen section, gender, age, and tumor size in the differentiation of follicular adenoma from carcinoma: A meta-analysis

Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1075-1081

  Miltenburg, Darlene M ^a   Prost, Henry M ^a   Graviss, Edward A ^a   Arem, Ridha ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033665385     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2000.109962     Document Type: Article

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