Grey-scale analysis allows a quantitative evaluation of thyroid echogenicity in the patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-229

  Mazziotti, Gherardo ^a   Sorvillo, Francesca ^a   Iorio, Sergio ^a   Carbone, Antonella ^a   Romeo, Antonio ^a   Piscopo, Marco ^a   Capuano, Salvatore ^b   Capuano, Ermanno ^b   Amato, Giovanni ^a   Carella, Carlo ^a,c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; LIOTHYRONINE; PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOGRAM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THYROID DISEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0043167786     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01829.x     Document Type: Article

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