Cervical lymph node metastases: Diagnosis at sonoelastography - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 258-267

  Lyshchik, Andrej ^a,d   Higashi, Tatsuya ^a   Asato, Ryo ^a   Tanaka, Shinzo ^a   Ito, Juichi ^a   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a   Insana, Michael F ^b   Brill, Aaron B ^c   Saga, Tsuneo ^a   Togashi, Kaori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CALCIFICATION; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID CANCER; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34147214914     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2431052032     Document Type: Article

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