Natural course of benign thyroid nodules in a moderately iodine-deficient area

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 767-771

  Erdogan, Murat Faik ^a   Gursoy, Alptekin ^a   Erdogan, Gurbuz ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; SEX FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; TURKEY;

EID: 33751113259     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02664.x     Document Type: Article

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