Ultrasound-Guided Laser Thermal Ablation in the Treatment of Autonomous Hyperfunctioning Thyroid Nodules and Compressive Nontoxic Nodular Goiter

Thyroid

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 941-947

  Spiezia, Stefano ^a   Vitale, Giovanni ^b   Di Somma, Carolina ^b   Pio Assanti, Angelo ^a   Ciccarelli, Antonio ^b   Lombardi, Gaetano ^b   Colao, Annamaria ^b  

^a Department of Surgery   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPRESSION; DYSPHONIA; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; ILLUMINATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; NECK TUMOR; NODULAR GOITER; PERCUTANEOUS LASER THERMAL ABLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWALLOWING; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; TRACHEA DISEASE; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HEAT; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; THYROID NODULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0242362719     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/105072503322511346     Document Type: Article

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