Percutaneous laser ablation of cold benign thyroid nodules: A 3-year follow-up study in 122 patients

Thyroid

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1253-1261

  Valcavi, Roberto ^a   Riganti, Fabrizio ^a   Bertani, Angelo ^a   Formisano, Debora ^b   Pacella, Claudio M ^c  

^a Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova   (Italy)

^b AO Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova   (Italy)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETOPROFEN; LANSOPRAZOLE; LIOTHYRONINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BURN; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ESTHETICS; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; ITALY; LARYNX DISORDER; LASER SURGERY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN BRUISING; STRIDOR; SWELLING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASOUND; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; ITALY; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 78249246034     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2010.0189     Document Type: Article

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