Ultrasound of Thyroid Nodules

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 463-478

  Desser, Terry S ^a   Kamaya, Aya ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Sonography; Thyroid carcinoma; Thyroid nodules; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTIFACT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FOLLICLE CYST; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOCYTOMA; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CYST; THYROID NODULE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BODY PET;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 48949118477     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2008.03.005     Document Type: Review

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