Thyroid incidentaloma: The ignorant in pursuit of the impalpable

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-20

  Topliss, Duncan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; NOTE; OCCULT CANCER; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; PATIENT SELECTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 0842309250     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.01956.x     Document Type: Note

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