Controversies in medicine: Thyroid nodules ‘‘head or tails’’
Undoubtedly, thyroid nodules are one of the most common pathologies a physician faces in clinical practice. Not only the endocrinologist, but also the internist and the first contact physician, this situation obeys to the fact that this thyroid gland alteration is highly prevalent amongst the gen...
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| author | Ovalle Berumen, Jesús Fernando |
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| description | Undoubtedly, thyroid nodules are one of the most common
pathologies a physician faces in clinical practice. Not
only the endocrinologist, but also the internist and the
first contact physician, this situation obeys to the fact that this thyroid gland alteration is highly prevalent amongst the general population. Statistics on the prevalence of this pathology vary from series to series. However, the numbers indicate that between 4% and 7% of the general population present one or more nodules on their thyroid and, as in all diseases related to this organ, they are more frequent in females |
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| spelling | eprints-117062016-11-24T20:33:23Z http://eprints.uanl.mx/11706/ Controversies in medicine: Thyroid nodules ‘‘head or tails’’ Ovalle Berumen, Jesús Fernando Undoubtedly, thyroid nodules are one of the most common pathologies a physician faces in clinical practice. Not only the endocrinologist, but also the internist and the first contact physician, this situation obeys to the fact that this thyroid gland alteration is highly prevalent amongst the general population. Statistics on the prevalence of this pathology vary from series to series. However, the numbers indicate that between 4% and 7% of the general population present one or more nodules on their thyroid and, as in all diseases related to this organ, they are more frequent in females UANL. Facultad de Medicina 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_nd http://eprints.uanl.mx/11706/1/S1665579616300229_S300_en.pdf http://eprints.uanl.mx/11706/1.haspreviewThumbnailVersion/S1665579616300229_S300_en.pdf Ovalle Berumen, Jesús Fernando (2016) Controversies in medicine: Thyroid nodules ‘‘head or tails’’. Medicina universitaria, 18 (70). pp. 55-57. ISSN 1665-5796 |
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