Editorial: Molecular Detection of Thyroid Cancer: Differentiating "Signal" and "Noise" in Clinical Assays

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-32

  Ringel, Matthew D ^a,b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; IMMUNOASSAY; NOTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID TUMOR;

HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0842269795     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-031956     Document Type: Editorial

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