Role of18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in preoperative assessment of cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4485-4488

  Sebastianes, Fernando M ^a   Cerci, Juliano J ^a   Zanoni, Patricia H ^a   Soares Jr , José ^a   Chibana, Lilian K ^a   Tomimori, Eduardo K ^a   De Camargo, Rosalinda Y A ^a   Izaki, Marisa ^a   Giorgi, Maria Clementina P ^a   Eluf Neto, José ^a   Meneghetti, José Cláudio ^a   Pereira, Maria Adelaide Albergaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 35948990409     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2007-1043     Document Type: Article

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