Clinical decision making in patients with thyroid nodules

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1005-1006

  Gross, Jorge Luiz ^a   Kramer, Caroline K ^b   Remonti, Luciana Reck ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISTANT METASTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGIONAL METASTASIS; THYROID CANCER; THYROID MICROCARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84902182548     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.42     Document Type: Letter

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