Prospective trial evaluating electrical impedance scanning of thyroid nodules before thyroidectomy: Final results

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 247, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 843-853

  Nissan, Aviram ^a   Peoples, George E ^b,d   Abu Wasel, Bassam ^a   Adair, Carol F ^e   Prus, Diana ^a   Howard, Robin S ^c   Lenington, Sarah G ^f   Fields, Scott I ^a   Freund, Herbert R ^a   Peretz, Tamar ^a   Burch, Henry B ^c   Shriver, Craig D ^c,d   Stojadinovic, Alexander ^c,d  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d United States Military Cancer Institute   (United States)

^e BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f SGL Biomedical Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SCANNING; FEMALE; GOITER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROIDITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 42549114279     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318165c757     Document Type: Article

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