Value of doppler ultrasonography in management of patients with follicular thyroid biopsy specimens

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 270-274

  Levine, Robert A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33748083373     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.12.3.270     Document Type: Article

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