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GuidelineThyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association2006

Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer.

David S Cooper, Gerard M Doherty, Bryan R Haugen, Richard T Kloos, Stephanie L Lee, Susan J Mandel, Ernest L Mazzaferri, Bryan McIver, Steven I Sherman, R Michael Tuttle and 1 more

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Guideline in Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 517 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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517citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

517 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Guideline
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  5. [Update of the S2k guidelines : Surgical treatment of benign thyroid diseases].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2018
    Guideline
  6. Differentiated Thyroid Cancer-Treatment: State of the Art.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017
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  8. Guideline
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  10. Patient-Reported Dysphagia After Thyroidectomy: A Qualitative Study.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2018
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  18. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025
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457 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

David S CooperSinai Hospital of Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD, USA.
Gerard M Doherty
Bryan R Haugen
Richard T Kloos
Stephanie L Lee
Susan J Mandel
Ernest L Mazzaferri
Bryan McIver
Steven I Sherman
R Michael Tuttle
American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BiopsyHumansNeoplasm MetastasisRiskThyroid DiseasesThyroid GlandThyroid NeoplasmsTime FactorsTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID16420177

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Registered trials

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