Diagnostic use of ultrasonography in patients with nodular thyroid disease

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 246-252

  Mandel, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID NODULE;

HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 9644280119     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.10.3.246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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