Clinical presentation of thyroid cancer patients in Pakistan - AKUH experience

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 526-528

  Zuberi, L M ^a   Yawar, A ^a   Islam, N ^a   Jabbar, A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; GENDER; GOITER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 9644279697     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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