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[Economic analysis of diagnostic and therapeutic methods in cases of cold thyroid nodules]
L Eeckhoudt1, J Hermans, P Merlo
1Facultés Catholiques de Mons et de Lille, Hôpital de Jolimont, Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgique.
Annales D'Endocrinologie
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
This article studies how two diagnostic tests (cytological puncture and 201thallium scanning) can be combined to obtain a more efficient approach of cold thyroid nodules. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are compared on the basis of four criteria: financial cost (immediate and delayed), number of labelled cancers, pre- and postoperative death rates and number of complications.

