Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Since a physician coalition called attention to the extremely high incidence of diagnoses of thyroid cancer in South Korea and proposed that thyroid screening with ultrasonography be discouraged, there has been a marked decrease in the number of thyroid operations.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
DOI: 10.1056/nejmc1507622
Authors: Hyeong Sik Ahn, H. Gilbert Welch
Institution: Korea University
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2333865060