title: Studies on quantitative morphology. X. Determination of thyroid follicle size.
abstract: Although thyroid follicles mostly have irregular shapes, the correlation between the more accurate planimetrical data and values, which are obtained by calculations via the diameters after the formula for an ellipse, often show high coefficients.
mesh_terms: D008433:Mathematics; D008722:Methods; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000033:anatomy & histology*