Natural history of benign solid and cystic thyroid nodules

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 315-318

  Alexander, Erik K ^a   Hurwitz, Shelley ^b   Heering, Jenny P ^b   Benson, Carol B ^b   Frates, Mary C ^b   Doubilet, Peter M ^b   Cibas, Edmund S ^b   Larsen, P Reed ^b   Marqusee, Ellen ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0037452516     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-4-200302180-00010     Document Type: Article

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