From the bench to the bedside. Galectin-3 immunodetection for improving the preoperative diagnosis of the follicular thyroid nodules

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 6-7, 2004, Pages 356-359

  Gasbarri, Alessandra ^a   Marchetti, Clorinda ^a   Iervasi, Giorgio ^b   Bottoni, Antonio ^b   Nicolini, Andrea ^c   Bartolazzi, Armando ^a   Carpi, Angelo ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fine and large needle aspiration biopsy; Galectin 3; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN 3;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CENTER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNODETECTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CELL; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROID NODULE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; GALECTIN 3; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 3242734917     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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