Prevalence, Clinical and Ultrasonographic Characteristics of Thyroid Incidentalomas

Thyroid

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-33

  Kang, Hahn Wook ^a   No, Jung Heyun ^a   Chung, Jae Hoon ^a   Min, Yong Ki ^a   Lee, Myung Shik ^a   Lee, Moon Kyu ^a   Yang, Jung Hyun ^a   Kim, Kwang Won ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CALCIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1442285401     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/105072504322783812     Document Type: Article

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