Percutaneous laser ablation in the treatment of toxic and pretoxic nodular goiter

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-36

  Barbaro, Daniele ^a   Orsini, Paola ^a   Lapi, Paola ^a   Pasquini, Cristina ^a   Tuco, Anna ^a   Righini, Andrea ^a   Lemmi, Paolo ^a  

^a Sezione Endocrinologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LASER SURGERY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NODULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 34147109289     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.13.1.30     Document Type: Article

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