Analysis of clinical, ultrasound and colour flow-Doppler characteristics in predicting malignancy in follicular thyroid neoplasms

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 342-344

  Trimboli, Pierpaolo ^a   Ulisse, Salvatore ^a   D'Alò, Michele ^c   Solari, Fabrizio ^c   Fumarola, Angela ^a   Ruggieri, Massimo ^b   De Antoni, Enrico ^b   Catania, Antonio ^b   Sorrenti, Salvatore ^b   Nardi, Francesco ^a   D'Armiento, Massimino ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47549084645     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.03158.x     Document Type: Letter

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