Thyroid Nodules 2006: Managing what has been known for over 50 years
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Thyroid nodules 2006: managing what has been known for over 50 years.
The 50 anniversary of the publication of Mortensen, Woolner and Bennets paper entitled Gross and microscopic findings in clinically normal thyroid glands has just passed. Their paper reported that at autopsy at the Mayo Clinic approximately half of those not known to have thyroid disease pre-mortem had thyroid nodules (Table 1). Although we need to bear in mind that those who died of thyroid d...
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عنوان ژورنال: HORMONES
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1109-3099
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.11188