Role of apparent diffusion coefficient values in differentiation between malignant and benign solitary thyroid nodules

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 563-568

  Abdel Razek, Ahmed Abdel Khalek ^a   Sadek, A G ^a   Kombar, O R ^a   Elmahdy, T E ^a   Nada, N ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 41149151866     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0849     Document Type: Article

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