The role of preoperative neck ultrasounds to assess lymph nodes in patients with suspicious or indeterminate thyroid nodules.

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Published in J Surg Oncol on October 17, 2011

Authors

Rashmi Roy1, Guennadi Kouniavsky, Raghunandan Venkat, Erin A Felger, Zita Shiue, Eric Schneider, Martha A Zeiger

Author Affiliations

1: Endocrine Surgery Section, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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