Thyroid gland: Can a nomogram predict death in patients with thyroid cancer?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 192-193

  Wang, Tracy S ^a   Sosa, Julie A ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NOMOGRAM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; THYROID CANCER;

HUMANS; NOMOGRAMS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84875469827     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2013.45     Document Type: Article

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