Therapy: A new nonsurgical therapy option for benign thyroid nodules?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 476-478

  Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROTROPIN;

BENIGN TUMOR; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NODULAR GOITER; PERCUTANEOUS ETHANOL THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY THERMAL ABLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; THYROID CYST; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LASER THERAPY; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 70349305564     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.152     Document Type: Short Survey

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