High incidence of thyroid cancer in focal thyroid incidentaloma detected by 18F-fluorodexyglucose positron emission tomography in relatively young healthy subjects: Results of 3-year follow-up

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 395-401

  Ohba, Kenji ^a,b   Nishizawa, Sadahiko ^b   Matsushita, Akio ^a   Inubushi, Masayuki ^b   Nagayama, Koji ^a   Iwaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Matsunaga, Hideyuki ^a   Suzuki, Shingo ^a   Sasaki, Shigekazu ^a   Oki, Yutaka ^a   Okada, Hiroyuki ^b   Nakamura, Hirotoshi ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDG PET; Follow up; Thyroid incidentaloma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953626411     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K10E-008     Document Type: Article

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