Thyroid incidentaloma

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-96

  Jin, Judy ^a,b   McHenry, Christopher R ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computer tomography (CT); fine needle aspiration biopsy; management of thyroid nodule; neck ultrasound; positron emission tomography (PET); thyroid incidentaloma; thyroid malignancy

Indexed keywords

CALCIFEDIOL; CALCIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84856704502     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.06.004     Document Type: Review

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