Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the preoperative assessment of thyroid nodules in an endemic goiter area

Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 294-299

  Kresnik, Ewald ^a,b   Gallowitsch, Hans Juergen ^a   Mikosch, Peter ^a   Stettner, Haro ^a   Igerc, Isabella ^a   Gomez, Iris ^a   Kumnig, Gerhild ^a   Lind, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GOITER; HUMAN; MALE; ONCOCYTOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037352949     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2003.71     Document Type: Article

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