Science to practice: Can sonoelastography enable reliable differentiation between benign and metastatic cervical lymph nodes?

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-2

  Nazarian, Levon N ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34147198665     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2431061626     Document Type: Short Survey

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