The low utility of pretherapy scans in thyroid cancer patients

Thyroid

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 815-816

  Schlumberger, Martin J ^a   Pacini, Furio ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROGLOBULIN;

CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROTROPIN; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 68349090153     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2009.1584     Document Type: Editorial

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