The natural history of benign thyroid nodules

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 926-935

  Durante, Cosimo ^a   Costante, Giuseppe ^b   Lucisano, Giuseppe ^c,j   Bruno, Rocco ^d   Meringolo, Domenico ^e   Paciaroni, Alessandra ^a   Puxeddu, Efisio ^f   Torlontano, Massimo ^g   Tumino, Salvatore ^h   Attard, Marco ⁱ   Lamartina, Livia ^a   Nicolucci, Antonio ^c   Filetti, Sebastiano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b University Hospital Magna Graecia of Catanzaro   (Italy)

^c Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology   (Italy)

^d Ospedale di Tinchi Pisticci   (Italy)

^e Ospedale di Bentivoglio   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^g CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

ⁱ Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia Cervello   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84924502658     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.0956     Document Type: Article

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