Sonographic Imaging of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 479-489

  Langer, Jill E ^a   Mandel, Susan J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Thyroid cancer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 48949118345     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2008.03.007     Document Type: Review

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