Benign and malignant nodular thyroid disease in acromegaly. Is a routine thyroid ultrasound evaluation advisable?

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Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Reverter, Jordi L ^a   Fajardo, Carmen ^b   Resmini, Eugenia ^a   Salinas, Isabel ^a   Mora, Mireia ^c   Llatjós, Mariona ^a   Sesmilo, Gemma ^d   Rius, Ferran ^e   Halperin, Irene ^c   Webb, Susan M ^a   Ricart, Veronica ^b   Riesgo, Pedro ^b   Mauricio, Dídac ^a   Puig Domingo, Manel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Hospital Universitario de la Ribera   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABERGOLINE; GROWTH HORMONE; PEGVISOMANT; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GOITER; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID CYST; THYROID NODULE; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROIDECTOMY; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

ACROMEGALY; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84940278926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104174     Document Type: Article

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