Thyroid cancer detection by ultrasound among residents ages 18 years and younger in Fukushima, Japan: 2011 to 2014

Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 316-322

  Tsuda, Toshihide ^a   Tokinobu, Akiko ^b   Yamamoto, Eiji ^c   Suzuki, Etsuji ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; THYROID CANCER; YOUNG ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84964047109     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/eDe.0000000000000385     Document Type: Article

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