Quantitative analysis of tumor vascularity in benign and malignant solid thyroid nodules

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 837-846

  Lyshchik, Andrej ^a,b   Moses, Ryan ^a   Barnes, Stephanie L ^c   Higashi, Tatsuya ^b   Asato, Ryo ^b   Miga, Michael I ^c   Gore, John C ^a,d   Fleischer, Arthur C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Power Doppler sonography; Thyroid tumors; Vascular index

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

POWER DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TREATMENT; THYROID TUMORS; VASCULAR INDEX (VI);

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 34249906718     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.6.837     Document Type: Article

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