Rates of malignancy in incidentally discovered thyroid nodules evaluated with sonography and fine-needle aspiration

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 629-634

  Liebeskind, Amy ^a   Sikora, Andrew G ^b   Komisar, Arnold ^a   Slavit, David ^a   Fried, Karen ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Thyroid biopsy; Thyroid fine needle aspiration; Thyroid neoplasm; Thyroid sonography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOPSY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONICS;

FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION (FNA); SONOGRAPHY; THYROID NODULES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 17744366603     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.5.629     Document Type: Article

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