Elevated calcitonin and procalcitonin levels in nonmedullary benign and malignant thyroid nodules

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 852-853

  Giovanella, Luca ^a,b   Maffioli, Marco ^c   Suriano, Sergio ^a   Dorizzi, Romolo M ^d  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

^d Laboratorio Unico di AvR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; PROCALCITONIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; BLOOD; CARCINOMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UPREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CALCITONIN; CARCINOMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952590060     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03733.x     Document Type: Letter

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