Thyroid cancers detected by imaging are not necessarily small or early stage

Thyroid

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-318

  Malone, Michael K ^a   Zagzag, Jonathan ^a   Ogilvie, Jennifer B ^a   Patel, Kepal N ^a   Heller, Keith S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84894109391     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2012.0651     Document Type: Article

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