Thyroid calcifications: Sonographic patterns and incidence of cancer

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 368-371

  Taki, Suzuka ^a   Terahata, Shintaro ^b   Yamashita, Ryohei ^b   Kinuya, Keiko ^b   Nobata, Koji ^b   Kakuda, Kiyoshi ^b   Kodama, Yuko ^a   Yamamoto, Itaru ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TONAMI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; Neoplasms; Sonography; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGERY;

CALCIFICATION PATTERNS; PREOPERATIVE ULTRASONOGTAPHY (US); SONOGRAPHIC PATTERNS;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 4744343695     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(03)00190-6     Document Type: Article

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