Benign and malignant thyroid incidentalomas are rare in routine clinical practice: A review of 97,908 imaging studies

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1327-1331

  Uppal, Abhineet ^a   White, Michael G ^a   Nagar, Sapna ^a   Aschebrook Kilfoy, Briseis ^b   Chang, Paul J ^a   Angelos, Peter ^a   Kaplan, Edwin L ^a   Grogan, Raymon H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; THYROID INCIDENTALOMA; THYROID NODULE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; ILLINOIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THYROID NEOPLASMS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84941765237     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-0292     Document Type: Review

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