Medullary thyroid nodules by measurement of calcitonin (Ct) in aspiration needle washout in patients with multinodular goiter and moderately elevated serum Ct

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 234-237

  Trimboli, P ^a   Nigri, G ^b   Romanelli, F ^c   Cicciarella Modica, D D ^a   Crescenzi, A ^a   Valabrega, S ^b   Giovanella, L ^d  

^a Piazza San Bartolomeo All'Isola 21   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

calcitonin; fine needle aspiration; medullary thyroid carcinoma; washout measurement

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; ULTRASOUND; WASHOUT OF THE NEEDLE AFTER ASPIRATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CALCITONIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84860260270     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291344     Document Type: Article

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