Thyroid incidentalomas: epidemiology, risk stratification with ultrasound and workup.

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Published in Eur Thyroid J on September 05, 2014

Authors

Gilles Russ1, Sophie Leboulleux2, Laurence Leenhardt1, Laszlo Hegedüs3

Author Affiliations

1: Thyroid and Endocrine Tumor Unit, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
2: Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France.
3: Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.

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