Thyroid cancer in HCV-related mixed cryoglobulinemia patients

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 693-696

  Antonelli, Alessandro ^a   Ferri, Clodoveo ^a   Fallahi, Poupak ^a   Nesti, Claudia ^a   Zignego, Anna Linda ^a   Maccheroni, Maccheroni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Mixed cryoglobulinemia; Thyroid autoimmunity; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLOMA; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION;

AGED; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036709483     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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