Effect of ultrasound-guided interstitial laser photocoagulation on benign solitary solid cold thyroid nodules - A randomised study

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 341-345

  Døssing, Helle ^a   Bennedbæk, Finn Noe ^a   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENERGY; ESTHETICS; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LASER PHOTOCOAGULATION; LASER COAGULATION; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 15944364142     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.01865     Document Type: Article

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