The sonographic features of papillary thyroid carcinomas: Pictorial essay

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-45

  Jun, Peter ^a   Chow, Lawrence C ^a   Jeffrey, R Brooke ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid nodule; Thyroid ultrasound; Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CALCIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 14244255576     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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