Cross-Sectional Imaging of the Thyroid Gland

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 445-461

  Loevner, Laurie A ^a,b   Kaplan, Summer L ^a   Cunnane, Mary Elizabeth ^c   Moonis, Gul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Hospital of the University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; MRI; Parathyroid localization; Parathyroid surgery; Radioablation; Radionuclides; Sestamibi; Thyroid gland; Thyroid surgery; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; AMIODARONE; ANTITHYROID AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE 123; IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TECHNETIUM 99M; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROXINE;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIOTHYRONINE SYNTHESIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOCYTOMA; ORAL CHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; ORGANOGENESIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; THYROGLOSSAL DUCT CYST; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE SYNTHESIS;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 48949118336     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2008.05.001     Document Type: Review

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