Predicting thyroid malignancy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4253-4255

  Ross, Douglas S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 33751531179     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2006-1772     Document Type: Editorial

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