Randomized prospective study comparing a single radioiodine dose and a single laser therapy session in autonomously functioning thyroid nodules

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-100

  Døssing, Helle ^b   Bennedbæk, Finn Noe ^a   Bonnema, Steen Joop ^b   Grupe, Peter ^b   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^b  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID TENDERNESS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34547411489     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-07-0094     Document Type: Article

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