Increased frequency of thyroid nodules and breast fibroadenomas in women with uterine fibroids

Thyroid

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1257-1259

  Spinos, Nikitas ^a   Terzis, George ^a   Crysanthopoulou, Athina ^a   Adonakis, George ^a   Markou, Kostas B ^a   Vervita, Vasiliki ^a   Koukouras, Dimitrios ^a   Tsapanos, Vasilios ^a   Decavalas, George ^a   Kourounis, George ^a   Georgopoulos, Neoklis A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID NODULE; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 37849027325     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.0330     Document Type: Article

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