Diagnosis of thyroid follicular carcinoma by the vascular pattern and velocimetric parameters using high resolution pulsed and power Doppler ultrasonography

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-212

  Miyakawa, Megumi ^a   Onoda, Noritaka ^b   Etoh, Miyuki ^b   Fukuda, Izumi ^b   Takano, Kazue ^b   Okamoto, Takahiro ^b   Obara, Takao ^b  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follicular carcinoma; Power Doppler ultrasonography; ROC curve; Thyroid ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 19744364536     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.52.207     Document Type: Article

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