Latin American thyroid society recommendations for the management of thyroid nodules;Recomendações da sociedade Latino-Americana de tireoide no manejo de nódulos tireoideos

Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1167-1175

  Camargo, Rosalinda ^a   Corigliano, Sandro ^b   Friguglietti, Celso ^c   Gauna, Alicia ^d   Harach, Rubén ^e   Munizaga, Fernando ^f   Niepomniszcze, Hugo ^g   Pitoia, Fabian ^g   Pretell, Eduardo ^b   Vaisman, Mario ^h   Ward, Laura Sterian ⁱ   Wohllk, Nelson ^f   Tomimori, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTO AMARO   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

^e Dr A Onativia Hospital   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Radioactive iodine therapy; Thyroid aspiration biopsy; Thyroid nodule; Thyroid ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149153388     PISSN: 00042730     EISSN: 16779487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302009000900014     Document Type: Article

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