Diagnosis: Thyroglobulin in fine-needle aspiratesa clue to metastasis?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 249-250

  Costante, Giuseppe ^a   Filetti, Sebastiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ECHOGRAPHY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CARCINOMA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NOTE; THYROID TUMOR;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67651148248     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.55     Document Type: Short Survey

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