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| Title |
Levothyroxine or minimally invasive therapies for benign thyroid nodules
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd004098.pub2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elizabeth Bandeira‐Echtler, Karla Bergerhoff, Bernd Richter |
| Abstract |
Thyroid nodules (TN) are common in the adult population. Some physicians use suppressive levothyroxine (LT4) therapy to achieve a reduction in the number and volume of TN. In addition, minimally invasive treatments, such as percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) sclerotherapy, laser photocoagulation (LP), and microwave (MW), radiofrequency (RF) and high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation, have been proposed, especially for pressure symptoms and cosmetic complaints, as an alternative to surgery. However, the risk to benefit ratio of all treatments for benign TN is currently unknown. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1 | 10% |
| Spain | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 8 | 80% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 30% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 396 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 391 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 54 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 44 | 11% |
| Researcher | 42 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 26 | 7% |
| Other | 85 | 21% |
| Unknown | 113 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 135 | 34% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 40 | 10% |
| Psychology | 17 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 54 | 14% |
| Unknown | 128 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 November 2019.
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#4,522,026
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#6,826
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#40,661
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#120
of 236 outputs
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