Thyroid autonomy with color-coded image-directed Doppler sonography: Internal hypervascularization for the recognition of autonomous adenomas

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 63-69

  Becker, Dirk ^a   Bair, Hans Jürgen ^a   Becker, Wolfgang ^a   Günter, Erwin ^a   Lohner, Walter ^a   Lerch, Stefan ^a   Hahn, Eckart Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Autonomous adenoma; Color Doppler ultrasonography; Thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0031027574     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199702)25:2<63::AID-JCU3>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Feder N: Solitary cells and enzyme exchange in tetraparenteral mice. Nature 263:67-69, 1976.
2. Bähre M, Emrich D: Funktionsszintigraphie der Schilddrüse (ger). Akt Endokr Stoffwechsel 4:66-71, 1983.
3. Reinwein D, Benker G, Köng MP, et al: Hyperthyroidism in Europe: clinical and laboratory data of a prospective multicentric survey. J Endocrinol Invest 9:1-36, 1986.
4. Becker W, Börner W: Stellenwert der Sonographie in der Schilddrüsendiagnostik (ger). Der Nuklearmediziner 9:27-42, 1986.
5. Kusic Z, Becker DV, Saenger EL, et al: Comparison of technetium-99m and iodine-123 imaging of thyroid nodules: correlation with pathologic findings. J Nucl Med 18:261-267, 1990.
6. Brunn J, Block U, Ruf G, et al: Volumetric analysis of thyroid lobes by real-time ultrasound. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 106:1338-1341, 1981.
7. Becker W, Börner W: Stellung der Sonographie in der Diagnostik und Therapie der Schilddrüsenautonomie (ger). Der Naklearmediziner 12:197-203, 1989.
8. Becker W, Börner W, Gruber G: Scintigraphy and sonography in the diagnosis of thyroid autonomy. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 111:1630-1635, 1986.
9. Becker W, Borner W, Rendl J: Is a TSH screening for the diagnosis or exclusion of functional thyroid autonomy meaningful? Nuklearmedizin 31:132-136, 1992.
10. Clark KJ, Cronan JJ, Scola FH: Color doppler sonography: anatomic and physiologic assessment of the thyroid. J Clin Ultrasound 23:215-223, 1995.
11. Thomas C, Bautz W, Mueller-Schauenburg M, et al: Angiodynography of circumscribed thyroid changes. ROFO. Fortschr Geb Rontgenstr Neuen Bildgeb Verfahr 150:72-75, 1989.
12. Schwaighofer B, Kurtaran A, Huebsch P, et al: Color-coded Doppler sonography in thyroid diseases: initial experiences ROFO. Fortschr Geb Rontgenstr Neuen Bildgeb Verfahr 149:310-313, 1988.
13. Fobbe F, Finke R, Reichenstein E, et al: Appearance of thyroid diseases using color coded duplex sonography. Eur J Radiol 9:29-31, 1989.
14. Ralls PW, Mayekawa DS, Lee KP, et al: Color-flow Doppler sonography in Graves disease: "thyroid inferno." AJR 150:781-784, 1988.