Value of repeating a nondiagnostic thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 735-742

  Orija, Israel B ^a   Piñeyro, Maria ^b   Biscotti, Charles ^b   Sethu K Reddy, S ^b   Hamrahian, Amir H ^b  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; REOPERATION; RISK; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REOPERATION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 38949136480     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.13.7.735     Document Type: Article

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