A solitary hyperfunctioning thyroid nodule harboring thyroid carcinoma: Review of the literature

Thyroid Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mirfakhraee, Sasan ^a   Mathews, Dana ^b   Peng, Lan ^a   Woodruff, Stacey ^a   Zigman, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot nodule; Malignancy; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; MULTIVITAMIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INSOMNIA; LOBECTOMY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTIC THYROIDITIS; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SUBCLINICAL HYPERTHYROIDISM; TENDON REFLEX; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; TREMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 84877002949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17566614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-6614-6-7     Document Type: Review

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