Should we use ultrasound features associated with papillary thyroid cancer in diagnosing medullary thyroid cancer?

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 503-508

  Trimboli, Pierpaolo ^a   Nasrollah, Naim ^a   Amendola, Stefano ^a   Rossi, Fabio ^a   Ramacciato, Giovanni ^b   Romanelli, Francesco ^c   Aurello, Paolo ^b   Crescenzi, Anna ^a   Laurenti, Oriana ^a   Condorelli, Emma ^a   Ventura, Claudio ^a   Valabrega, Stefano ^b  

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

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Medullary thyroid cancer; Thyroid nodule; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CALCITONIN; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84863701775     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ12-0050     Document Type: Article

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