Higher frequency of thyroid tumors in the right lobe

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 186-189

  Gessl, Alois ^a   Raber, Wolfgang ^a   Staudenherz, Anton ^a   Becherer, Alexander ^b   Koperek, Oskar ^a   Hofmann, Andrea ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b University Teaching Hospital Feldkirch   (Austria)

^c Hietzing Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Side distribution; Thyroid carcinoma; Thyroid lobe size; Thyroid ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956454643     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-010-9126-7     Document Type: Article

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