Diagnosis of thyroid cancer in children: Value of gray-scale and power Doppler US

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 604-613

  Lyshchik, Andrej ^a,d   Drozd, Valentina ^a   Demidchik, Yuri ^b   Reiners, Christoph ^c  

^a Laboratory of Thyroidology   (Belarus)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOLLOW UP; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR VOLUME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 17644397550     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2352031942     Document Type: Article

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