Thyroid nodules - Stepwise diagnosis and management
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Thyroid nodules - stepwise diagnosis and management.
Thyroid nodules are common in clinical practice. They may be solitary within a "normal" thyroid gland or dominant within a multinodular goiter. The incidence of thyroid nodules has been on the rise in recent decades, mainly due to the wider use of neck imaging. Therefore, the incidental finding of a thyroid nodule in an asymptomatic patient is not rare. The differential diagnosis of a thyroid n...
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Thyroid nodules are very common. With widespread use of sensitive imaging in clinical practice, incidental thyroid nodules are being discovered with increasing frequency. Their clinical importance is primarily related to the need to exclude malignancy (4.0 to 6.5 percent of all thyroid nodules), assess for their functional status and any pressure symptoms caused by them. New Molecular tests are...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: HORMONES
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1109-3099
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.111107