Prevalence and risk of malignancy of thyroid incidentalomas detected by 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography

Thyroid

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 124-126

  Treglia, Giorgio ^a   Giovanella, Luca ^b   Bertagna, Francesco ^c   Di Franco, Davide ^a   Salvatori, Massimo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; LETTER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID NODULE;

FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84872062241     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2012.0216     Document Type: Letter

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