Diagnostic accuracy of high-resolution neck ultrasonography in the follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer: A prospective study

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 165-171

  Alzahrani, Ali S ^a   Alsuhaibani, Hamad ^a   Salam, Suzan Abdel ^a   Al Sifri, Saud N ^a   Mohamed, Gamal ^a   Al Sobhi, Saif ^a   Sulaiman, Othman ^a   Akhtar, Mohamed ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CANCER STAGING; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 27744556716     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.11.3.165     Document Type: Article

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